Apr
1st
Tue
1st
"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
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Mar
13th
Thu
13th
To be truly happy, she ruefully concluded, “one must be susceptible to illusions, for it is to illusions that we owe the majority of our pleasures. Unhappy is the one who has lost them.
Mar
4th
Tue
4th
Buckley
Feb
12th
Tue
12th
What was discovered in that report, “Excess Deaths Associated with Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity” (2005), was that overweight people, a BMI between 25 and 29.5, actually had less risk of death than those with a normal BMI. Another recent study reported in the American Journal of Medicine went even further, suggesting that obese patients had a lower mortality risk than patients with normal weight. In the study, researchers from the cardiology division at Stanford University researched a population of 6,876 older veterans over the course of about seven years. Their research revealed that obese veterans were 22 percent less likely to die than their normal-weight counterparts. Additionally, the “obesity paradox” grew to 35 percent when the obese veterans had a higher cardiorespiratory fitness level than the normal-BMI veterans. It’s these kinds of reports and others that lead Bacon to declare that the United States doesn’t have an obesity problem.
Jan
18th
Fri
18th
Jan
16th
Wed
16th
Nobody seems to be interested in nuance anymore
Dec
31st
Mon
31st
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
