I’m not talking about these shingles
Has anyone here ever had the joy of experiencing Shingles? I’m not talking about re-roofing your house. I’m talking about the wonderful painful, burning, itching sensation caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. Well, for the last couple weeks, I have been getting a mild [...]
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Last night, I finally finished The Fattening of America by Eric Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman. It was basically about how the economy is geared to making people fat, the detriments of obesity on the nation, and the benefits to the economy of obesity. Finkelstein uses his Uncle Al and Cousin Carl as exemplars [...]
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Just a little something to think about.
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Here’s an article I came across awhile back: Normal Weight Obesity: An Emerging Risk Factor For Heart And Metabolic Problems
More than half of American adults considered to have normal body weight in America have high body fat percentages — greater than 20 percent for men and 30 percent for women — as well as heart [...]
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Here are two articles I’ve had for awhile regarding the mechanisms of cancer and cancer defense:
Why don’t we get cancer all the time?
Having the neighboring cell just split into two identical daughter cells would seem to be the simplest way to keep bodies from falling apart. However that would be [...]
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Here’s something to keep you entertained and well-read for the day: Gary Taubes Interview. It’s 14 parts and is some of the same stuff from Good Calories, Bad Calories. It’s largely a very conversational skimming of what’s in the book.
Here’s a premise that I’ve heard that always irks me:
TAUBES I have friends and [...]
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A reader named Bob (Thanks Bob!) sent me the following link: My Big Fat Diet.
In Alert Bay, Canada, there is a community of Namgis First Nation aborigines suffering from high rates of obesity and the accompanying complications. Dr. Wortman has taken a group of these aboriginals and put them on a [...]
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I came across this article awhile back: What Does And Doesn’t Affect Immune System.
Scientists know that a number of factors can affect the body’s immune system: poor diet, certain steroids, chronic stress. Now researchers at Michigan State University have discovered that an appetite-controlling hormone also affects the immune system, while natural [...]
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Check out the audacity of the state of Mississippi: Bill would make it illegal to feed the obese
Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on [...]
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So I’m late to the party, but it took a long time to get through the request list at the library. I finally got a hold of Gary Taubes excellent book Good Calories, Bad Calories and went through it. My reaction is that this could be the book that turns things around in [...]
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