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I just heard an interesting news report from Wall Street. While automobile corporations are losing millions, small businesses are closing, and clothing stores are practically giving things away one corporation is booming. McDonalds. As an eating disorder therapist this concerns me. Long before our economic crisis Americans were facing a serious weight management crisis. Obesity is now of...

It seems it’s about time to publish another of my musings-lite musings. You remember, it’s just a collection of things I have observed or thought about that don’t need 300 – 400 words of a dedicated, singular musing to talk about. A short macabre piece of humor – Sometime back, the police shot criminal in act of trying to shoot it out with them. He was wanted for killing...

What if no one were fat? Posted by Cliff & Tatjana Eggink Imagine a lean and healthy America: The savings on medical, fuel, food and other costs would be enough to give every U.S. household more than $4,000. In the United States today, 66% of adults are overweight. Almost 33% of adults are obese, and 4.7% are morbidly obese, or more than 100 pounds overweight. What if nobody in...

Psalm 55:22 "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." This was written by a of Metro Denver Hospice Physician: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die - I barely managed to coast, cursing, into a gas station, glad only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm...

Eric Shackle did it again. He's exposed another hidden gem. Another fantastic story on a person over the age of 100. We first learned of Eric through his wonderful articles on Olive Riley in Australia, who at age 108 was the World's Oldest Blogger. Or so he thought! Growing Bolder actually had the World's Oldest Blogger! She was 109 years old and also the oldest member of a social networking...

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. Apparently, there's not a lot of hand clapping going on. Have you been in a bookstore lately? The happiness industry is smiling from ear to ear. There's Stumbling on Happiness, The Secrets of Happiness, In Search of Happiness, The Art of happiness, The Happiness Makeover and for those who think they're smarter than the rest of us - The Psychology...

One issue of the health debate has always bothered me is dogmatic conservative rhetoric about...