Posted in Diet on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »
A draft law in France is looking to punish “incitement to excessive thinness” in magazines, on websites and in other media.
While not seeking to target bona fide dieting, the law would punish any encouragement to make “people deprive themselves of food in order to get excessively thin”, or that constituted an “open apology of anorexia”.
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Posted in Fitness on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I was appreciably nervous when I went in for my sleep study. Another confession time here, I actually postponed the study initially by two weeks because I caught a head cold.
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Book author and medical writer Thomas Hager has written a fascinating essay about starvation and obesity.
He asks the question “who’s making us fat?”. A question that researchers have debated for many years.
With the huge growth in population over the last few decades - shouldn’t we have run out of food by now? Instead we’re mostly […]
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A large study of more than 44,000 nurses shows that waist size is strongly associated with death rates independently of body mass index.
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Posted in Recipes on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Updated. From the recipe archive.
The debate usually begins like this.
ME: Dad, how do you make your hash browns turn out so crispy? They’re so good.
DAD: Use a potato ricer. It’s the only thing I’ve found that really gets the moisture out of the potatoes. The trick to these hash browns […]
