Collecting My Thoughts

"For decades, experts at CDC, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Department of Education,...

Lots of pretty charts in this report, but it looks to me like obesity rates began soaring with the War on Poverty, about the same time t...

I haven't seen the July 13 issue of JAMA yet, but it contains an opinion piece that suggests obese children might need to be removed fro...

Yes, this is the bias that drove me crazy about Law and Order--any version of it. The criminal was never a minority, or the homeless person...

Yesterday while making a salad for the meal to take over to my daughter's home where a beehive of activity is taking place to build a d...

When people report their research in JAMA, they are required to include any compensation or financial gain they might have received that cou...

Bloggers and talkers left and right (Glenn Beck mentioned it, and he seems overly concerned about his own weight, IMO) are saying she did a ...

Matthew Dalton has an article in the WSJ today about fighting obesity, and why the "village" approach (i.e., government control) i...

Do you remember what you weighed in 7th grade? I do. I was 5'3" and 114 lbs. by the end of the school year. We had "public...

Is there anything new in this study? JAMA reports that decreased physical activity plays a critical role in the increase in childhood obesi...

My contribution Like the heterosexual AIDS epidemic that didn't happen, the pediatric obesity epidemic has recently been proven to be a ...