To get to the answer to the question straight away: it might. This was brought up in a study reported on Msnbc.com, part of which states: …new research has determined that a judgmental attitude may just go hand in hand with exposure to organic foods. In fact, a new study published this week in the [...]
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Thank GOD we’ve sorted that out. Some of us thought it was Wall Street destroying Amreica. Some thought it was illegal immigrants. Others thought it was moral decay. All wrong – its fat people doing it. Fat people, according to this article in Reuters, are a drain on the economy. Let me cherry pick a [...]
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From the Palm Beach Daily News: Johns Hopkins researchers have made the proponents of the always controversial Atkins diet very happy. A recent study presented at the American Heart Association’s March meeting lauded low-carb diets such as Atkins for producing weight loss and belly fat loss — linked to heart disease — more efficiently than [...]
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I have lifted this verbatum from Businessinsider.com: Overweight women make $13,847 less than average, while underweight women make $15,572 more. That means that a fat woman makes $29,419 less per year than a skinny one. A study led by Timothy Judge at the University of Florida and published by the American Psychological Association studied the salaries [...]
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Now here’s some researchers an exercise-averse person like me has gotta love. “Millions of Americans don’t engage in much exercise, if they complete any at all and asked why, a majority of respondents, in survey after survey, say, ‘I don’t have time.’ Now Gretchen Reynolds reports that instead of wondering justhow much exercise people really [...]
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The Wall Street Journal reported that, for some reason, America’s rising obesity rate stopped rising in 2003. Actually, it’s not just the good ‘ol USA that this is happening in, but the entire world. Researchers don’t know why, exactly, so they trot this out – at least this is the summary from the reporter: The [...]
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One of the paradoxes in a consumer society like ours, is that to lose weight, to remove something, we are typically instructed to do so by consuming something else. It’s just how we’re taught: got a problem? Buy something to fix it. A lot of folks think that they can fix their crappy diet by popping [...]
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Is the mainstream media starting to take notice? This article from Bloomberg is a must-read, I assure you. It discusses research that shows the addictive properties – real, serious, addictive responses to junk food as serious as the chemical dependency of drugs – occur. I think that while the entire article is worthy of a [...]
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New research out of the University of Switzerland has discovered a compound that forms when peanuts are boiled increases metabolic activity and leads to weight loss. As boiled peanuts are frequently eaten in Asian cultures, it is believed that the as-yet-unnamed compound, jokingly referred to as ‘gooberol’ by one British researcher, explains why there is [...]
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Empathy for fat folks is in short supply – we’re all lazy and should just push ourselves away from the table and put down the friggin fork – right? Yeah – right. I wish it was that easy. It’s what a lot of fit folks think – because they never were fat. Well, here’s a [...]
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