DiPlease read the preceding disclaimer first. Read the following at your own risk: “Outside of gastric bypass surgery, no system has ever produced any significant long-term weight loss. None. “ So says Megan McArdle, channeling Paul Campos and Gina Kolata, in her article “Thining Thin” in The Atlantic Monthly. She adds, “Every single study which …
(Image unavailable to do extreme prejudice. I searched for an hour and couldn’t find any unoffensive pictures to appropriately illustrate this story. Which is a story in and of itself.) In one of the saddest examples that perverts will use anything to justify their crimes, a pastor (a pastor!) recently explained that the reason he …
I read FitPregnancy. It seems slightly silly to me, this being my fifth (I’m a breeder!) pregnancy and all and yet I’m still drawn by the lure of Build An Entire Maternity Wardrobe Out of 5 Simple Pieces (of clothing I could never afford) and essays by professional athletes who do two-hour trail runs when …
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Once upon a time in a rainy kingdom far, far away on Ye West Coast, I was a Godiva girl. No, not the riding-a-horse-naked-through-town kind (can you imagine the chafing?) but the chocolate-pimping kind. My day job was as a professor but due to my directional dyslexia I ran a stop sign and totaled my …
Despite what shows like The Biggest Loser and shrieking harpies like Meme Roth contend, shaming people is not an effective weight loss tool. And yet books, talk shows, diet gurus and more magazine articles than I care to count advocate shaming your loved ones, friends, casual acquaintances and even perfect strangers into losing the extra …
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Yes, this “weight loss tool” really exists. Heaven help us. Lest you missed the past 10 years, we now officially live in a culture of oversharing. Celebs talk about their rehab stints and fertility treatments in between questions from “serious” reporters about when they lost their virginity. And it isn’t just the rich and famous …
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See, THIS is why I love her! Welcome to World of the Weird, celebrity edition! Today absurdity came full circle when Brit actress and Academy Award winner Kate Winslet announced that she will be suing The Daily Mail for… insinuating she works out. For those of you unacquainted with the antics of The Daily Mail, …
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In case you missed it, “fat” is experiencing a resurgence in the beauty world as evidenced by recent photos of Kate Moss where she sports some extra weight in the form of actual breasts and hips – the latter only if caught in the right light. Of course everyone cried pregnancy first but Moss has …
Cindy Crawford: A modern Dorian Gray? Photo Credit. The closest I’ve ever come to a celebrity is sitting about 20 rows behind Billy Corgan at a Jazz vs. Bulls playoffs game, unless you count the time I swore I saw Pamela Anderson waiting for a shuttle at the Southwest terminal out of LAX. (My brother …
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“It’s been so long since I’ve had carbs I can’t remember what you are supposed to do with them? Am I doing this right??” Most of us master our societal two-fold prime directive quite early in life. Before our cells even have the chance to completely turn over once – an event that happens about …
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