It will come as no shock to anyone who's ever met me that I've been trying to lose weight, though for most of my life "trying" has been in quotes and, except for a bulimic period in high school (when I got down to a size 10/12), my weight has largely gone up rather than down. ( I've recently had a bit more success... )

My father just learned that I have asthma. I just learned that my grandfather had asthma. For the first time in my life I'm hearing about how he (my grandfather) used to cough and cough and it freaked my father out and he (my father) used to watch us (my brothers and I) for any signs of asthma 'cause he was worried it would skip a generation ( Read more... )

Sam recently pointed a link to "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" presented by Dr. Robert Lustig, a 90-minute talk where he argues that HFCS is no worse than sugar because they're both toxins, that "a calorie is not a calorie" because sucrose/fructose are metabolised differently than glucose, that sucrose/fructose differs only from ethanol (a toxin) in that ( Read more... )

It's snowing here. Anyone who has any contact with me in any arena probably knows this already as it's *cough* a bit of a preoccupation in my life right now. It started snowing on the 17th of December, when we went to York, and it's been snowing off and on since then. This is, I'm told, highly unusual. Two of Chris' neighbours have told me that ( Read more... )