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Read more: A Few Links
A Few Links
2 comments on A Few LinksDances With Fat wrote an interesting post on how she’s not wanting to be “the exception”: I don’t date fat girls, except you. I would never take a class from a fat aerobics instructor, except you. I think of all fat people as lazy, except you. Plenty of people think that’s a good thing. I don’t. It means is that if someone looks at me and I challenge their…
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Read more: 100th Post :)
100th Post :)
Looking at my WordPress “dashboard” on Monday, I noticed that there has been over 300 approved (non-spam) comments. Also that I’d had 99 posts. So this is the hundredth post. :) Thanks for reading and commenting! Some other little factoids from the dashboard: 10 most viewed pages/posts: about the author & the blog Life at ~400lbs In context Day in the Life: Shower, Chafing, & Day…
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Read more: Correlations vs Causation
Correlations vs Causation
You may have read that getting less sleep is associated with heart disease. This one included a well-written description of how correlations are not causation. Senior author Diane S. Lauderdale cautioned that the new report does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between a lack of sleep and heart disease. “It’s important to say that this is the first report and this does not yet prove the association…
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Read more: Congratulations Kate!
Congratulations Kate!
Congratulations to the newly-married Kate Harding! May your home be filled with laughter and the warm embrace of a summer day. May you find peacefulness and beauty, challenge, and satisfaction, humor and insight, healing and renewal, love and wisdom, as in a quiet heart. May you always feel that what you have is enough. ~ unknown ~
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Read more: Quotes
Quotes
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all. You can’t let them stop you.” — Rita Mae Brown The above is a quote from the novel Venus Envy. I have it memorized. Some people know Brown for…
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Read more: Quotes
Quotes
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” — Albert Einstein This popped up on iGoogle’s quote of the day feature and I liked it.
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Read more: Let’s count the assumptions!
Let’s count the assumptions!
Start with a holiday news article on “the obese”. Let’s see: “The obese” all think & act alike. The obese all want to lose weight and are on “eating plans”. Not sure if intuitive eating is for thin folks or for nobody at all. The obese are all feeling self-conscious and judged about what they eat. Everyone knows who’s obese and who’s not. Eating something…
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