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Read more: Good Thoughts for SJ
Good Thoughts for SJ
2 comments on Good Thoughts for SJThis morning the independent musician, singer, songwriter, and all-around nifty person SJ Tucker goes into the hospital to have an ovarian cyst removed. I first heard of ovarian cysts when a friend had one removed that filled a 5-gallon paint bucket. Friend weighed around 330lbs at 5’6″. For over a year she’d known that something was inside her belly. But she didn’t want to deal with doctors.…
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Read more: Practicalities
Practicalities
Yes, it is nice that this writer spent 3 pages on how “nanny state” requirements to lose weight violates civil liberties and that ABC picked it up. It would’ve been nice, though, to drop in the fact that diets don’t cause permanent, sustainable weight loss for most people or that the health benefits of dieting tend to be transient. Sure, if losing 5 or 10lbs will move you from…
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Read more: No words
No words
This is just incredibly depressing. I am so sorry this can happen in what is supposed to be the civilized world. Take care of each other, okay?
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Read more: Nifty and/or Useful Links
Nifty and/or Useful Links
I found these useful & thought that you might too. Charlotte Cooper compared psychics with weight-loss sellers Weight loss industries rely as much on showbiz bravado as psychics, including the use of simple, vivid images that draw people in, such as the Before/After transformation archetype. That psychics, and weight loss companies and advocates, are types of industries that are unregulated and know they are peddling junk. Brown…
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Read more: How many non sequiturs are IN this one anyway?
How many non sequiturs are IN this one anyway?
This comment came in reply to my review of my review of Health At Every Size: I personally belive that living a comfortable life is a way to longevity, so if you believe that you are over-weight, have the determination to loose the extra fat you dont want, you can do it and never loose focus. Er … I’m confused. I don’t “belive” my life, I…
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Read more: Acne, Height and Headaches Contagious Too!
Acne, Height and Headaches Contagious Too!
Remember the “study” showing that having a fat friend made you more likely to be fat? Some researchers decided to apply the same methodology to pimples, height, and headaches. I missed this over the holidays but Sandy at JunkFoodScience didn’t. She summarized their results (published in the British Medical Journal) as follows: They found increased relative risks of 58% for height, 62% for pimples, and…
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Read more: BMI calculator for your home page?
BMI calculator for your home page?
If you’ve played with the iGoogle home page, you’ve seen all the different gadgets you can install. I have news, weather, a clock, my inbox, and so forth…. But this one made me laugh. A BMI Calculator for your home page? I can see someone creating one, if only for practice in creating a gadget – it takes a couple inputs, it gives an output,…
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Read more: Google Health News Surprise
Google Health News Surprise
“Dieting now makes you gain weight.” This San Francisco Chronicle article isn’t news for the fatosphere. But it is news, indeed, a pleasant surprise, for Google News. “Dieting is the worst thing people can do if they’re interested in weight control,” said Linda Bacon, a nutrition professor and clinical psychotherapist in the East Bay whose book, “Health at Every Size,” was published in November (BenBella Books). “Dieting seems the fastest…
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Read more: Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
At the urging of the Lord Peter group, I got Connie Willis’ comedic time-travel novel To Say Nothing of the Dog from the library (and liked it enough to buy it). It starts off confusing (first-person narration by someone who’s time-lagged will do that) but is pretty funny, and full of golden age mystery fiction references. It also contains several homages to the 1889 book Three Men in a…
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Read more: Great Resolution Idea
Great Resolution Idea
This week, the comic strip character Betty asked her husband Bub what his resolutions would be for 2009. He feels that to make resolutions for 2009 would involve breaking his 2008 resolution to stop being critical of himself. Tuesday explored this a bit more: Betty: Your resolution last year was to stop being critical of yourself? Bub: Yes. Of all the resolutions I’ve made over the years,…
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