More gloomy news for dieters
Of course, I already pretty much knew this. But still–drat!
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What’s up with these dancers who don’t age?
First there was Maya Plisetskaya at eighty. Then the other day I came across some recent photos of the dancers Carmen De Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder. I’d completely forgotten about them—although I saw both perform long ago—and to be honest … Continue reading →
Take your vitamins!
Oh, never mind. And in completely unrelated news, this feat is astounding, especially to us non-runners. I’m glad it worked out well; seems potentially risky, though. I wouldn’t recommend it for most people. But then, most people wouldn’t try to … Continue reading →
Bodybuilding run amok
Disturbing:
Continue reading →PSA test for prostate cancer screening: should he or shouldn’t he?
Even his doctor doesn’t know for sure. In some ways the news that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has stopped recommending routine prostate cancer screening through the mechanism of the PSA blood test mirrors the same group’s finding in … Continue reading →
A rare confluence: Jonathan Chait and I…
…agree about fat guy Chris Christie, and those who criticize him for being endowed with excess adipose. In Chait’s article he refers the reader to this book, The Obesity Myth. I haven’t read it, but I’m familiar with the genre. … Continue reading →
Right on schedule…
…here come the “Christie’s too fat to be president” articles (here and here). From the latter: Unfortunately, the symbolism of Christie’s weight problem goes way past the issue of obesity itself. It is just a too-perfect symbol of our country … Continue reading →
Bad news for dieters
Not that we needed more evidence, but new research is explaining just why it’s so hard for most people to lose weight and maintain the loss. I already knew about this from personal experience and observation. And don’t get me … Continue reading →
Model faces
I’ve noticed, on looking at photos of models and some starlets (is that still an acceptable word?), that you need to have a rather broad and almost triangular face to continue to be pretty while at the same time sporting … Continue reading →
Feeling your pain
The news is out that a way to objectively document a patient’s pain is being developed: A team at Stanford University in California used computer learning software to sort through data generated by brain scans and detect when people were … Continue reading →
The rubber hand trick
On body perception and the brain: This phenomenon doesn’t surprise me in the least. After my arm surgery, when my right elbow was frozen for a long time, I lost some of the sense that the arm belonged to me. … Continue reading →
And then there’s al Megrahi
I was going to write a post about the second anniversary of Lockerbie bomber al Megrahi’s release, commenting on my lack of surprise at his continued existence despite the initial prediction that he had only three months to live. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →