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What I’m Reading: Last Child In The Woods

I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are.
- A fourth-grader in San Diego
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs and mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water-lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to [...]

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What I’m Reading: The Fattening Of America

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 [...]

Filed in Obesity and Disease 5 Comments so far