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Benefit of Large Thighs – Study
There is a lot of interest swirling around the study that showed a larger thigh circumference may add years to one’s life. To start, I want to remind everyone that the strongest predictor of your...
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STUDY: About those middle age fat chicks
There has been released recently a widely pressed study — another Nurse’s data dredge — showing that middle age women have increasingly greater chances of not making it to “healthy” old age (health is...
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The Problem with “Peer Review”
I just came across this article mentioned in the comments on this post at Sociological Images. I think it’s really interesting, and is of definite value in the determination of what is real, and what...
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Quick Hit: Americans Are Just as Fat Now as 1999-2000
…you know, just after the BMI categories for overweight and obese were revised downwards several points, in effect making millions of Americans overweight or obese overnight. One-Third of American...
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Send Away the Fat Kids
Shudder-worthy article today: Task force: Screen kids, obesity treatment works An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive...
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Do you avoid going to the doctor?
There’s a great post over at Fat and Sassy, linking a study which concludes fat people of a certain age are hospitalized far more than their thinner peers. A quote from the study: Appropriate primary...
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First Lady Releases Child Obesity Recommendations
…largely blames mothers for child’s obesity. cue shock and surprise Link to the AP article Some particular gems (note throughout these that the child omgbesity is referred to, without challenge, as...
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The Fat Balancing Act
This is a post initiated by Raznay’s “Some Studies Show Fat Is Bad… Mmmkay?” on the never-ending oodles of studies trying in every which way to investigate just why “fat people are so disgusting.” It...
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No Empathy for the Fat in Healthcare
I saw this Scientific American article in my Google Reader this morning, and it struck me right away that this — THIS — is what’s missing from the average fat person’s healthcare, compared to the...
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Some S. Florida Gynos Refusing to Take Overweight Patients
…because they’re afraid of getting sued. No, really. Apparently the medical malpractice laws in Florida are so stringent that they are in effect making blanket pronouncements (and proscriptions...
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