Category: Media
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The most significant “lifestyle” cause of death and disease
10 comments on The most significant “lifestyle” cause of death and diseaseWe focus so much on weight, especially women. Magazines, TV shows, news, advertising, government programs. We focus on diet and exercise to “improve” our weight, but really we’re trying to improve ourselves. Yet we don’t focus on getting richer or better educated.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Soda Tax =/= Obesity Tax
But there is a way to institute a tax that could, perhaps, be analogous to the tobacco taxes: Recognize that fat runs in families. Put a tax on fat people who have babies! We could even pay thin parents to have more babies, so’s to increase their proportion of the gene pool.
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January O: Diet As Usual
The January O Magazine arrived in the mail today. It seemed to have a few more diet-and-weight focused articles than usual: A “Let’s Eat Right” article on eating healthy, aka “good foods instead of bad”; A “Numbers to Worry About” article that included that women should have a 32.5-inch waist; Oprah’s “Got heart palpitations due […]
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HAES in O Magazine?
…so you’ve probably seen that Oprah has announced that she’s not going to try to be thin, she’s going to work on being healthy. Meanwhile, Linda Bacon sent an email to her mailing list Monday that began: First, I’m happy to report that my book, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, […]
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Paid to Lose Weight?
Headline: Weight loss easier when you get paid for it. Granted, that is a new spin; usually you just pay to lose. Dr. Kevin Volpp, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who was concerned that dieting requires deferred gratification and decided to create a a reward system which gave dieters “rewards in the […]
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De-stressing
Work was stressful today. I came home feeling out of sorts. Mentally I was punchy; I knew my thinking was a bit slower than usual, but I was still obsessing about work. Physically I was wired – not only was I was busy enough at work that I ‘d forgotten my afternoon walk, but […]
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Ruby, The Rabbi’s Wife
Book: Fax me a Bagelby Sharon Kahn. Genre/Category: Amateur detective mostly operating amid her friends and frenemies at her local synagogue. Setup: Fortysomething widow Ruby Rothman is still known as “the Rabbi’s Wife” despite her husband’s death. When Marla, the sister of her nemisis on the synagogue board, is murdered, Ruby’s friend Milt is suspected. […]
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Yoga Videos & Books I have known
I started doing yoga in college with Raquel Welch’s book on yoga.1 Even then I found yoga relaxing and energizing. It also helped me improve my strength & flexibility. Years later I wanted to try yoga again, but, remembering how I’d had no idea how to modify some poses, I looked for something more tailored […]
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This week’s Cathy
The comic strip Cathy debuted in 1976. I was 10 years old and just starting to read newspapers on my own. It was often the only image of a professional, self-reliant young woman I saw, and not just on the comics page. Sometimes she was unsure about how to proceed, but she never moved back […]
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Book Review: Dying to be Thin
Dying to Be Thin: A Fat City Mystery by Kathryn Lilley. Genre/Category: Girl Reporter turns Amateur Detective in a diet center comedy. Setup: 26-year-old Kate Gallagher is an award-winning TV News producer with a camera-ready face but a behind-the-camera (size 16) body. She wants to be a reporter, so when she’s laid off from her […]
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