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• Reading the News, Thinking about Charlie

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Toys, Food And Diet, Charlisms, Living Arrangements, Health, Neuroscience, Animal Rights, Animals, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dora The Explorer, Education, Elmo, Family, House, New York Times, News, Newspaper, Obesity, Octagon, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  Once upon a time, when I sat down to read the newspaper, I just read it: Front page, arts, book reviews, world news, skip the sports. Now I sit down in front of my laptop to read, and get up mid-story if I hear Charlie calling—-and, inevitably, much of what I read is through the lens of Charlie, and of autism. For example: Eating

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• Body Issues: Why Skinny Bitches Hate Fatties: It's Called Survival, Stupid!

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Body Issues, Obesity

  Diet Blog spotted a story in The Independent about a new study suggesting that there's a biological reason why skinny people are grossed out by fat people. The Independent reports that researchers... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Broadsides: As Always, Oprah Winfrey Is Ruining It For The Rest Of Us

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Broadsides, Cervical Cancer, Congo, Obesity, Obituaries, Oprah Winfrey, Pregnancy, Rich Women, Sikh Weddings, Violence Against Women

  Women between the ages of 50 and 70 are about to become the richest demographic in the United States, claims writer Marti Barletta. We'd see this as cause for celebration except that the inclusion of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Star Jones The Truth Be Told

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, Health, Celebrity Gossip, General News, Al Reynolds, Barbara Walters, Bariatric Surgery, Excess Weight, Gastric Bypasses, Gastric Bypass Surgery, Morbid Obesity, Psychological Therapy, Star Jones Reynolds, Star Jones Weight Loss, Starr Jones, Weight Loss

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• Persuasive Video Games Offer Moral and Political Issues Disguised as Fun

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:12 am

  Tags: Games, Obesity, Political, Issues, Nutrition, Cool Stuff, Video Games Amp Amp Consoles, Persuasive, Moral, Unleashing

  10 Tags: Games obesity political issues nutrition - Cool Stuff Video Games & Consoles persuasive moral unleashing

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• Obese Girls Less Likely to Attend College

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:05 pm

  Tags: Lose Weight, College, Fat, Middle Class, Obesity, Student, Study

  study - "Gender, Obesity, and Education."The study began in 1994 and surveyed nearly 90,000 students from grades 7-12 at 132 schools.He concluded that fat girls, obese girls were more likely to NOT attend college.Whereas, fat boys just went about with their lives.My experience - fat people are less likely to do a whole lot of

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• Who's Making Who Fat Now?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Comic, Infectobesity, Obesity

  Just because I thought this little comic strip from GeekCulture.com was cute and quite appropriate, I wanted to share. With all the talk about obesity being contagious, are your friends making you fat or are you the one making your friends fat? Now that is the real question...

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• Social Networks and the Increase in Autism

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:07 am

  Tags: Epidemic, Statistics, Health, Adolescents, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Friends, Health, Networks, Obesity, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Social Networks, Sociology

  published study about how obesity may be “socially contagious” and “can spread from friend to friend much like a virus. When one person gains weight, close friends tend to gain weight, too.” Peter Bearman, a social scientist at Columbia University, oversees the federal National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health,

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• Exercise And Type 2 Diabetes

  Published: August 5, 2007, 12:27 pm

  Tags: Health, Blood Sugar, Cardiovascular Disease, Exercise, Health Experts, Heart Disease, Insulin Resistance, Insulin Sensitivity, Obesity, Physical Activity, Type 2 Diabetes

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• It's official: everyone is fatter in the U.S.

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Cnn, Fast Food, Fattest States, Fittest States, Obesity, Overeating, Overweight Americans, Overweightamericans

  Filed under: Trends, Health & MedicalDo you live in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, or West Virginia? Congratulations, you're the fattest people in the country! That's the findings of the CDC and the BRFSS. Over the past 20 years, the waistlines of people in those states have increased 25% or

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• Broadsides: Don't You Know? Jordan's Breasts Are For Flashing Not Nursing!

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Abstinence, Anorexia, Birthing, Breast Feeding, Broadsides, Depression, Film, High Heels, Obesity, Prostitution, Puberty, Rape, Single Fathers, Voting

  Breast milk proponents in the UK are calling for a ban on baby formula advertisements after an ad appeared alongside a photo of mammary-enhanced new mom Jordan in a gossip rag. Um, clearly she was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• UPenn and Temple - Overweight Students 20% More Likely to Stay Home

  Published: August 12, 2007, 10:37 pm

  Tags: General Education, Absenteeism, Age, Fat, Gender, Obesity, Overweight, Race, Socio Economic Status, Students

  A study by University of Pennsylvania and Temple University found that overweight children were 20% more likely to be absent from school than their normal-weight peers.BMI, body mass index, was as significant a factor in determining absenteeism from school as age, race, socioeconomic status and gender.Fourth, 5th and 6th graders in the

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• Obese kids miss more school

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:27 am

  Tags: Bullying, Children, Elementary Students, Elementarystudents, Fat, Kids, Missed Days, Misseddays, Missing School, Missingschool, Obese Children, Obesechildren, Obesity, Overweight, Overweight Children, Overweightchildren, School Absenteeism, Schoolabsenteeism, Sick Days, Sic

  Filed under: Feeding & Nutrition, Health and Safety, Elementary school, Public school, Going to school, EatingA new study from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University finds that being overweight is the best predictor for school absenteeism. Researchers say that elementary school kids who are obese miss more school days than their

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• Obese kids miss more school

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:27 am

  Tags: Bullying, Children, Elementary Students, Elementarystudents, Fat, Kids, Missed Days, Misseddays, Missing School, Missingschool, Obese Children, Obesechildren, Obesity, Overweight, Overweight Children, Overweightchildren, School Absenteeism, Schoolabsenteeism, Sick Days, Sic

  Filed under: Feeding & Nutrition, Health and Safety, Elementary school, Public school, Going to school, EatingA new study from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University finds that being overweight is the best predictor for school absenteeism. Researchers say that elementary school kids who are obese miss more school days than their

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• Back Pain - The Latest in Video Game Related Maladies

  Published: August 15, 2007, 3:26 am

  Tags: Game Related Science, Gamer Life, Back Pain, Back Problems, Lethargy, Obesity, Physiotherapy

  health problems of obesity, reduced levels of activity, and the popularity of passive entertainment systems such as PlayStations that encourage further inactivity and prolonged sitting posture in the adolescent age group,” Duncan Reid, New Zealand Manipulative Physiotherapists Association spokesman, said in a recent Stuff.co

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