Category: WellnessIndustry
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LEAN Works. Not.
After reading both the Association for Size Diversity and Health’s press release and Laura Frater’s post on the CDC’s LEAN Works site I went and took a look at it. I was not impressed. While skimming the site, a survey popped up asking me to give my feedback. I answered it honestly, noting that, for…
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Health Assessments
Mcfluffy’s post in the LJ fatshionista community about health assessments, and the resulting comment thread, got me thinking. She had one very negative assessement from the website of her health insurance company; she had a very positive assessment from the “general health assessement” from another site.
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Optimism
It’s getting tougher these days to think of the glass as half full rather than half empty, but if you’re going to survive this economic crisis – literally – you might as well try. – Time Optimism. This can be hard when 2 people you know lost their job in the last week and a…
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Why is leisure activity so important?
One thing I read a lot is conflating “leisure-time physical activity” with “all physical activity”. For example, try the following, from a book on things that can affect happiness: In the USA, roughly 62 percent of adults engage in at least some physical activity during their leisure time. That means 38 percent don’t engage…
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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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