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An emerging risk of youth sports
As youth sports become increasingly specialized, a family from The Woodlands is the subject of this Gina Kolata/NY Times article on one of the big risks to children of that trend -- increased torn anterior cruciate ligaments ("ACL"), the main...
Self-deception about calories
This Gina Kolata/NY Times article (previous posts here) explains how many people continue to misconstrue exercise as a primary means of weight-control by overestimating the number of calories they expend during exercise. A well-structured exercise program can assist in controlling...
Kolata on Good Calories, Bad Calories
NY Times nutrition columnist Gina Kolata (previous posts here) reviews Gary Taubes' new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease (Knopf September, 2007), which was previewed earlier here. Kolata observes: His thesis,...
Investing in fat people?
Following on earlier posts here and here on how the U.S. anti-obesity industry often misrepresents the nature and extent of the health problems related to widespread obesity in American society, Laura Vanderkam reviews NY Times nutrition columnist Gina Kolata's new...
More on the futility of dieting
Earlier posts here, here and here discussed the general ineffectiveness of dieting. Now, this Gina Kolata/NY Times article reports that researchers at Rockefeller University are finding that "it is entirely possible that weight reduction, instead of resulting in a normal...
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