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Archive for November, 2013
Friday cat blogging: Thanksgiving edition!
Posted in Friday cat blogging on November 29, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Thanks!!
Posted in Administrivia, Me, me, me on November 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »
It’s Thanksgiving here in the US, so I wanted to send a quick note of thanks to you folks for reading, commenting, and emailing me this year … I greatly appreciate it!
I checked my stats today and it turns out that I am 88 posts shy of 1000 and 12K views shy of a half million … wow!! I’m not exactly the Little Engine That Could, but there is definitely something to be said about persistence ;).
If you’re celebrating, I hope you have a happy time with family and/or friends!
Obesity and poverty
Posted in Obesity, Research on November 26, 2013 | 4 Comments »
Something that is making the round of the media lately is the findings of a December 2010 CDC report, Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in Adults: United States, 2005–2008 (PDF). The CDC looked at survey data from their National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and found that the link between obesity and poverty was hardly clear-cut:
For more details, check out the report or other media takes (The Atlantic, Pew, and ConscienHealth).
Quote of the day
Posted in Diet, QOTD on November 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Allen Smith just tweeted one of his archived blog posts about his experiences with the Zone diet. About the “worst diet” he writes:
The worst diet isn’t the one that doesn’t work. The worst diet is the one that works extremely well in the short term, but fails in the long term. The diet that never works gets discarded and the dieter can move onto a new approach. The one that works only in short-term followed by a return in weight gain is more confusing to the dieter. They almost always blame themselves for not sticking to the diet and if they only stuck with it they would be successful. They rarely conclude that the failure of the diet in the long term wasn’t their fault. Years go by and the loyalty remains and so does the weight.
I think that the debacle that is the weight loss industry is largely due to two factors: one is our weight-obsessed culture and the other is that it can be so easy to lose in the short term.
I for one wish that there was more research into what I call the dark side of dieting … for some of us, those “works well in the short-term diets” add up … literally.
Today’s moment of zen: it’s ALL progress
Posted in TMOZ on November 18, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Friday cat blogging
Posted in Friday cat blogging on November 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
So Yoni Freedhoff has 2 hamsters and 1 wheel on his blog today? In response, I give you your choice of the original kittens on a slide (top) or the edited version with soundtrack (bottom).
Quote of the day
Posted in QOTD, Weight loss on November 15, 2013 | 5 Comments »
Go Kaleo’s Amber Rogers on her Facebook page:
The reason I struggled unsuccessfully with my weight for 25 years was because I was struggling with my weight.
My weight wasn’t the problem. My weight was a symptom of the problem.
The problem was my habits. I treated myself poorly. My internal dialogue was abusive and unkind. When I exercised I did it to punish myself, and when I dieted I allowed myself an inhumanely small amount of food. These are not behaviors and habits that will produce a healthy body. These behaviors tear a person down, reduce self esteem, trigger binge eating, make exercise unpleasant, reduce a human to nothing more than a collection of body parts that are treated with contempt. And I did it to myself. And I bet many of you reading this do it to yourself.
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Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our modern culture -- especially diet. Beth writes about ancestral health, health policy, & mindfulness. And cats! More »
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