Category: quotes
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Quotes: Truth
1 comment on Quotes: Truth“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” —Mark Twain “…a truth you don’t understand is more dangerous than a lie.” —Mira Grant, Blackout “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S Truman “You can’t […]
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Quotes: Rich
“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.” —Lord Chesterfield “The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton “When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’” —Don Marquis […]
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Quotes: Love
“Love is kind” — 1st Corinthians 13 “Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. […] “Love” may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship, or to the […]
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Quotes: Pretty
“You have such a pretty face. You should lose weight.” — Relatives “A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character” — Anon “Who cares about pretty? I’m going for noticeable.” — Veronica Roth “It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out […]
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Series of quotes: Poor
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” – Herman Melville “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and […]
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Being An Adult
My favorite thing about being an adult — about having a nice home to live in and an amazing-and-wonderful-and-often-super-difficult job and a loving/working marriage and debt that I pay on time — is that I get to self-determine what my grown-up life looks like. Being able to choose to do (and yes, even to buy) […]
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Things to Read
Free speech means that yes, you get to say anything you want (with some legal limits regarding libel and slander laws, advocating harm of another person or threatening someone with death or bodily harm, blackmail, all that), but free speech also means that other people get to say what they want, too, whether you like […]
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QOTD: People Really Do Know How To Eat
People really do know how to eat, otherwise we never would have survived as a species. We have internal regulation mechanisms to tell us when we are hungry and full, and to seek out a variety of foods for good nutrition. — Michelle, at her blog The Fat Nutritionist
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QOTD: Health
The debate about what exactly health means goes back to ancient Greece. Does health just mean living a long time? Does it mean feeling strong? Are athletes the epitomy of health? In fact, athletes suffer more injuries and illnesses than the rest of the population because they push themselves so hard. So who represents health? What about spiritual health? […]
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QOTD: Dealing with family
Because I don’t engage in fat hating comments or conversations I really just feel more and more like the black sheep from the family. Many of my family members have undergone bariatric surgery so the stress between them and myself is even worse. I have had one cousin who is a lot older than me […]
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Rebecca Puhl on Chris Christie & Weight Bias
Rebecca Puhl is the director of research at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale. The Rudd Center is pro-weight loss, which can be disconcerting to run across on their website. Nonetheless, they do useful research on weight discrimination and health, not to mention writing articles for CNN on how weight discrimination affects the news […]
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QOTD: Fitness and fatness
From Reuters, on a study in patients with coronary artery disease that looked at fitness levels and BMI: [Heart specialist and study leader Dr. Francisco] Lopes-Jimenez said, the lesson for patients is clear: try to improve your physical fitness. “It is much easier to become fit than it is to become slim,” he said. “Anybody who […]
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Disease Doesn’t Mean You’re A Bad Person
Very early in my career, I participated in a study of young women who were hospitalized and awaiting the results of biopsies to determine if they had cervical cancer. While I was interviewing one of my patients, the biopsy results of the woman in the next bed came back to her — negative. The fortunate […]
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Microagressions
Microagressions is a site about venting those little racist/sexist/classist dings that hit throughout the day. Some examples: “Excuse me, do you speak English?” Man at the bus stop. I am an Asian American woman. I was reading Jane Austen. In English. “Wow, from talking to you on the phone, I’d never know that you were […]
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Things to Read
A review of the book Deadly Spin, which is an inside look at how for-profit insurance companies use PR to make their policies palatable. From a piece on why the L.A. public schools are not participating in a reality TV show: “Reality TV has a formula. You either have to have drama or create conflict to […]
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Poverty’s Link to Diabetes
[C]onventional wisdom about Type 2 diabetes would suggest that once obesity, lack of physical activity and other lifestyle risk factors were taken into account, diabetes incidence rates would even out between lower- and higher-income groups…. [A recent study found that] for men, being in the lowest-income category (earning less than $15,000 per year), doubles the […]
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Quick: Men get Photoshopped too; Diet Wars; Where the Heck Have I Been?
This short shows before/after shots for a fictional bodybuilding product that were shot on the same day. The man in question really does look heavier in the before — due to lighting, positioning, makeup, and Photoshop. Epictetus was born in 55AD. I looked him up when a “quote of the day” site came up with […]
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