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Fat Robert, Meet Skinnier Robert (How I lost 20 pounds in 6 months)
On June 13, 2008 I weighed myself and was totally shocked. I weighed 220 pounds! I had gained a lot of weight, most of it over the past year. Fat Robert, 2007 Skinnier Robert, Oct 2008 When I was in...
View ArticleSustainable Seafood: Eat More Sardines!
Jim Carrier writes a long piece on the shrimping industry: The industry acknowledges that 5 percent of the world’s mangroves, hundreds of thousands of acres, have been destroyed creating shrimp ponds....
View ArticleNote to a seriously obese woman
A 530 pound woman complains about being treated like a social pariah: It’s not just the super-obese like me who have to take this punishment: There are people out there who are literally no more than...
View ArticleRobert Ebert on AA
Roger Ebert writes a long memoir about being an AA member: In those days I was on a 10 p.m. newscast on one of the local stations. The anchor was an A.A. member. So was one of the reporters. After we...
View ArticleHealth care reform and medical bankruptcy: Answering the Libertarian Argument
Nicholas Kristof on how a system based on private health insurance frequently results in spouse impoverishment, sometimes leading to fake divorces. Here are reader comments about the article which turn...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Rate Hikes
Ironic Postscript: Hours after I wrote this, I received a note from Aetna informing me of another price increase for health insurance. Until January 2010 my total price for a $5000 deductible health...
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“Perrycare” defined
For better or worse, the Affordable Care Act (the new health care reform law) has been dubbed “Obamacare.” Here’s another neologism: Perrycare. It is is defined as health care inside a state which...
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