Month: July 2009

  • Are fat people unhealthy? (part 2)

    Continued from part 1: …For health practitioners, particularly those enamoured with biochemical indices and relative-risk reduction strategies, the notion of one, simple solution [weight loss] to a myriad of chronic diseases β€” and possibly to mortality itself β€” is eminently seductive. Sadly, I also think it’s wrong. Why is it wrong? Because, first of all,…

  • July? What?

    So I’ve, er, lost a bit of time recently. I put my head down for a minute, looked up again, and it was July. Canada Day, to be precise, and also the first day of the month, which gives my husband the opportunity to sneak up behind me and shout, “PINCH, PUNCH, FIRST-OF-THE-MONTH, NO RETURNS!”…