Category Archives: Food

Disorderly Conduct

    At least 47 million American adults — or more than one in five — have a disorder that often includes a beer belly, high blood pressure, poor cholesterol readings and high blood sugar, according to a new study.  … Continue reading

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The Smoking Gun

    As this article points out, there was a time when few people believed you could sue tobacco companies, until documents were discovered that discussed the addictive properties of nicotine. Now we’ve come to the next step: suing the … Continue reading

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The End is Near

    …and I knew these pants would make it look big.    I just saw this cheery quote in an Associated Press story about middle-aged fat people. “‘This [Dutch research] study is saying that if you are overweight by … Continue reading

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Start the New Year Off Right

Regimen 1: Popcorn Fetch     Mickey is apparently serious about losing some weight in 2003. Usually I’m only contacted to defibrillate him or — and I’m not proud of this — to help pull him out of his shower … Continue reading

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Today in Food (2003/01/03)

    It was a big news day today. Just like last year, Men’s Fitness reports Houston as the country’s fattest city. (Here’s the story as reported in the Houston Chronicle.) Second is Chicago, with Detroit once again coming in … Continue reading

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January 2 2003

    Another year starts, and with it comes the desire for change. It’s a cliché to say I’d like to lose weight as my New Year’s resolution, but it’s true. At the risk of alienating my massive fan base … Continue reading

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On Vacation

    It’s not that I don’t want to update this page, it’s that I just have nothing much to say.    Yes, we’re near the end of the Holiday Eating season, but still in the middle of its biggest … Continue reading

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Best of 2002

    I can’t believe how quickly the holiday week has flown by. I’ve had an uncommon amount of days off this week, so much that I seem to have gotten lost in them. The days have flitted by so … Continue reading

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Pardon Our Dust

    The proposed changes are done, for the most part. I kind of compromised on archiving entries. I only worked on the pre-pMachine ones (prior to July 2002). With those, I removed them from PHP and converted them to … Continue reading

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Today in Fat News

    Sounding much like the embarrassment that plagued me two months ago, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that “Americans have gotten so fat that many doctors have difficulty using stethoscopes to listen to patients’ hearts.”http://www.suntimes.com/output/health/cst-nws-steth06.html

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