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In an ambitious 478-page report, the IOM refutes the idea that obesity is largely the result of a lack of willpower on the part of individuals. Instead, it embraces policy proposals that have met with stiff resistance from the food industry and lawmakers, arguing that multiple strategies will be needed to make the U.S. environment less "obesogenic ( Read more... )

When last we left, our hero had been awakened by a sense that something was going after the lady sleeping on the other side of the bushes. He tried to speak through the bushes. He failed. We closed the chapter with him deciding to walk around the bushes.
( BUT CAN HE?! )

Right. Our HELLO! hero and our shoot-a-baddie-to-the-floor heroine just ended the previous chapter right where Hill got bored and wandered off from her typewriter (I hope to god she didn't have to write all these things out longhand) so we shall have to plunge right into HELLO! responding to her questions about who is and what he is doing!
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And it is still awesome!
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And we should feel grateful, too.
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I have discovered Grace Livingstone Hill is on Project Gutenburg. We will be covering The Girl From Montana here. We must. We must.
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WHAT.

omgomomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg!It is petty of me, but people who claim doctors are in league with Big Pharma to deny you (YES YOU!) treatment that works, choosing instead to inject you with this, that, or the other and charge you $$$ for it, super annoy me. Super. It's like, guys. Guys. Doctors go to other doctors for treatment, they send ( Read more... )

How do I meet cute physicists?

(Also acceptable: engineers.)