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Diabetes Study Favors Surgery to Treat Obese
I sent this one to my mom, who is both unhealthily overweight (because I firmly believe you can be "overweight" and fairly healthy) and diabetic. She's considered some type of weight loss surgery because she simply can't lose it by herself; she could if she had the time, energy, and willpower to exercise and eat right, but her job and her lack of time and emotional support won't let her do either.
Two of hubby's aunts have had weight loss surgery with stellar results, so I'm definitely encouraging Mom to do it.
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Justices Broaden Immunity for Officers
O.o
Correct me if I'm wrong but, basically, a customs officer can steal from someone whose property they're supposed to be examining for contraband--and be immune from prosecution.
Wtf?
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Autopsy planned as actor Heath Ledger is mourned
What it's looking like right now (which may obviously change) is an accidental overdose of prescription sleep aids rather than a deliberate suicide. Either way, it sucks.
:-(
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Dobbs: Our leaders have squandered our wealth
We all have to acknowledge that our problems were in part brought on by the failure of our government to regulate the institutions and markets that are now in crisis. The irresponsible fiscal policies of the past decade have led to a national debt that amounts to $9 trillion. The irresponsible so-called free trade policies of Democratic and Republican administrations over the past three decades have produced a trade debt that now amounts to more than $6 trillion, and that debt is rising faster than our national debt. All of which is contributing to the plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar.
... All Americans will soon have to face a bitter and now obvious truth: Our national, political and economic leaders have squandered this nation's wealth, and the price of this profligacy has just come due for us all.
Bernanke endorsed the concept of a short-term economic stimulus package, but he cautioned that the money must be spent correctly: "You'd hope that [consumers] would spend it on things that are domestically produced so that the spending power doesn't go elsewhere."
Just what would you have us spend it on? The truth is that consumers spend most of their money on foreign imports, and any stimulus package probably would be stimulating foreign economies rather than our own. Imports, for example, account for 92 percent of our non-athletic footwear, 92 percent of audio video equipment, 89 percent of our luggage and 73 percent of power tools. In fact, between 1997 and 2006, only five of the 114 industries examined in a U.S. Business and Industry Council report gained market share against import competition.
Oh, come on, Mr. Dobbs, don't be afraid to tell us what you really think!
I like his commentaries. He and Roland Martin are my two favorite talking heads.
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Study looks at why poor kids are heavy
Previous research has suggested that poor children weren't getting nutritious food and instead ate junk food, such as hot dogs. Or that children may have eaten well when money was available, but would skip meals when cash was short, a cycle that could slow their metabolism and cause them to gain weight.
That's the common sense theory, and the one that makes the most sense to me. But here's my favorite line from the article:
She noted that the research only looked at children with weight problems, not those who were underweight.
So, in other words, being underweight is not a weight problem. Yeah. Way to support society's bias against people who don't look like anorexic models.
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
(Really, I need to get another cuteness source, because everyone on the internet is clued into I Can Has Cheeseburger by now.)
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The Onion takes on the new American Gladiators!
I love it. L.O.V.E. So funny, because it's so true.
Er. Not that I'm gonna stop watching the new Gladiators, because, hell, half-naked well-built men! 'Nuff said!
(Can I have Toa with ice cream and a cherry on top? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?)
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Did laundry like a madwoman yesterday. I'm still only halfway through the colors. Argh! And yesterday was my normal lights day, which means that I have to do lights today, which means that--yet again--the colors are going to pile halfway up to the ceiling.
I blame the kidlet. If she wasn't getting so tall, she wouldn't be wearing me-sized clothes, so her laundry wouldn't take as long every week! Yeah, that's it...
And today I gotta get my handout done and sent out (hopefully). On Sunday I spent class time going through the old handouts that are in our discussion room; when I got home I went through all the old ones that I have at home on paper. I have discovered that I have an awful lot of hardcopy handouts. Unfortunately, that "awful lot" also has an awful lot of random gaps, including this Sunday's topic, which is supposed to be a rerun, but is going to have to be another redo. (And, strangely, there are several handout numbers used twice for different topics. But this is me, so I really shouldn't be surprised.)
*sigh*
I have the nagging feeling that, since the old computer is doornail-dead, and I can't find my topics disc, said topics disc might well be inside the old computer.
I may have to dissect the computer to find out, since it won't even turn on to let me eject whatever might be in the disc drive.
My next computer is so going to be a Mac. They don't get viruses. (Yet.)
I sent this one to my mom, who is both unhealthily overweight (because I firmly believe you can be "overweight" and fairly healthy) and diabetic. She's considered some type of weight loss surgery because she simply can't lose it by herself; she could if she had the time, energy, and willpower to exercise and eat right, but her job and her lack of time and emotional support won't let her do either.
Two of hubby's aunts have had weight loss surgery with stellar results, so I'm definitely encouraging Mom to do it.
***
Justices Broaden Immunity for Officers
O.o
Correct me if I'm wrong but, basically, a customs officer can steal from someone whose property they're supposed to be examining for contraband--and be immune from prosecution.
Wtf?
***
Autopsy planned as actor Heath Ledger is mourned
What it's looking like right now (which may obviously change) is an accidental overdose of prescription sleep aids rather than a deliberate suicide. Either way, it sucks.
:-(
***
Dobbs: Our leaders have squandered our wealth
We all have to acknowledge that our problems were in part brought on by the failure of our government to regulate the institutions and markets that are now in crisis. The irresponsible fiscal policies of the past decade have led to a national debt that amounts to $9 trillion. The irresponsible so-called free trade policies of Democratic and Republican administrations over the past three decades have produced a trade debt that now amounts to more than $6 trillion, and that debt is rising faster than our national debt. All of which is contributing to the plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar.
... All Americans will soon have to face a bitter and now obvious truth: Our national, political and economic leaders have squandered this nation's wealth, and the price of this profligacy has just come due for us all.
Bernanke endorsed the concept of a short-term economic stimulus package, but he cautioned that the money must be spent correctly: "You'd hope that [consumers] would spend it on things that are domestically produced so that the spending power doesn't go elsewhere."
Just what would you have us spend it on? The truth is that consumers spend most of their money on foreign imports, and any stimulus package probably would be stimulating foreign economies rather than our own. Imports, for example, account for 92 percent of our non-athletic footwear, 92 percent of audio video equipment, 89 percent of our luggage and 73 percent of power tools. In fact, between 1997 and 2006, only five of the 114 industries examined in a U.S. Business and Industry Council report gained market share against import competition.
Oh, come on, Mr. Dobbs, don't be afraid to tell us what you really think!
I like his commentaries. He and Roland Martin are my two favorite talking heads.
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Study looks at why poor kids are heavy
Previous research has suggested that poor children weren't getting nutritious food and instead ate junk food, such as hot dogs. Or that children may have eaten well when money was available, but would skip meals when cash was short, a cycle that could slow their metabolism and cause them to gain weight.
That's the common sense theory, and the one that makes the most sense to me. But here's my favorite line from the article:
She noted that the research only looked at children with weight problems, not those who were underweight.
So, in other words, being underweight is not a weight problem. Yeah. Way to support society's bias against people who don't look like anorexic models.
***
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
(Really, I need to get another cuteness source, because everyone on the internet is clued into I Can Has Cheeseburger by now.)
***
The Onion takes on the new American Gladiators!
I love it. L.O.V.E. So funny, because it's so true.
Er. Not that I'm gonna stop watching the new Gladiators, because, hell, half-naked well-built men! 'Nuff said!
(Can I have Toa with ice cream and a cherry on top? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?)
***
Did laundry like a madwoman yesterday. I'm still only halfway through the colors. Argh! And yesterday was my normal lights day, which means that I have to do lights today, which means that--yet again--the colors are going to pile halfway up to the ceiling.
I blame the kidlet. If she wasn't getting so tall, she wouldn't be wearing me-sized clothes, so her laundry wouldn't take as long every week! Yeah, that's it...
And today I gotta get my handout done and sent out (hopefully). On Sunday I spent class time going through the old handouts that are in our discussion room; when I got home I went through all the old ones that I have at home on paper. I have discovered that I have an awful lot of hardcopy handouts. Unfortunately, that "awful lot" also has an awful lot of random gaps, including this Sunday's topic, which is supposed to be a rerun, but is going to have to be another redo. (And, strangely, there are several handout numbers used twice for different topics. But this is me, so I really shouldn't be surprised.)
*sigh*
I have the nagging feeling that, since the old computer is doornail-dead, and I can't find my topics disc, said topics disc might well be inside the old computer.
I may have to dissect the computer to find out, since it won't even turn on to let me eject whatever might be in the disc drive.
My next computer is so going to be a Mac. They don't get viruses. (Yet.)