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Letters: The risks of being obese
Re "Why we diet," Opinion, Jan. 4 Abigail Saguy intermingles the social and medical aspects of obesity. Certainly, discriminating against someone because of body habitus is inexcusable. However, ignoring the adverse health consequences of obesity is...Tags: Heart Attack, Obesity, Sleep Apnea, Weight, Diabetes
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Love Notes: So many differences, all so irrelevant
Janice Patterson remembers calling her mother to announce she was engaged. There wasn't much excitement on the other end of the line. "She said, 'Well, I'll tell your father. It's your life,' Janice recalls. "Then she said, 'I have to get off the...
Tags: Anne Sullivan, Weddings, Autism, Judaism, Rogers Park
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Merry Christmas
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Preschool to hold open house Jan. 6 Northern Cross Preschool will hold an open house Sunday, Jan. 6, from 2 to 4 p.m. The preschool is for 3- and 4-year-olds. It meets Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to ...
Tags: Heart Disease, Preschools, Religious Festivals, Religion and Belief, Obesity
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Chicagoan raises tens of thousands for charities while biking or walking
Desmond Campbell is a marathon man who has traveled miles and miles — many of them by foot, some of them by bike and quite a few of them while virtually standing still. During the course of his travels, he has helped people in extraordinary ways....
Tags: Chicago Hotels, Mick Jagger, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Arthritis Foundation, Trips and Vacations
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Evolved Humans Prefer the Runner’s High
The Fitness Center - Orlando SentinelA new study shows that there is an endocannabinoid system that releases cannabis-like chemicals into the blood stream, which alter and lighten our mood. The system must reach a threshold point attained only after prolonged exertion.... -
Our health and humanity unites us in ways that politics cannot bind
HealthA message I read this morning from a friend who specializes in treating liver disease shook me away from the daze of political polarities to focus on our common humanity.... -
Roberto Bolano's 'Woes of the True Policeman' a sketchy work
-------------------- Woes of the True Policeman A Novel Roberto Bolaņo, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 256 pp., $25 -------------------- An early death isn't the end for a writer. Like a special dispensation from...Tags: French Literature, Literature, Teaching and Learning, Robert J. Lopez, Mexico
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In Mexicali, a haven for broken lives
Mario Ramos stirs a pot of beans with a bent spatula as the men crowd into the kitchen, the ragged line stretching out the splintered doorway.
Years ago, Ramos, 45, grilled up pricey seafood in a tiki-themed restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in...Tags: Gang Activity, Chicago Hotels, Viral Diseases and Infections, Immigration, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Stephen Baxter, travel agent
Stephen Baxter, a retired travel agent, died of liver disease Oct. 2 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Mays Chapel resident was 66.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Samuel Baxter and Lola Annen Baxter. He lived on Barclay Street and in Anneslie. He...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Travel
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Some health experts sour on fructose
Just as recent science has divided dietary fats into good, bad and really bad categories, some scientists now think different sugars also may deserve individual scrutiny. Most experts agree that Americans eat too much sugar, period. But studies in recent...
Tags: Education, Coca-Cola Co., American Heart Association, Obesity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Death row inmate argues he's too fat for execution
Q13 FOX News OnlineA death row inmate who weighs 480 pounds is arguing that he is too fat to be executed. Ronald Post, who shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago, wants his upcoming execution delayed, saying his weight could lead to a "torturous...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Medical Professionals
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Baby boomers unknowingly infected with hepatitis C
When Alan Shackelford's ankles would swell up, he brushed it off as another sign of getting older — only to find out it was a symptom of something much worse.
The 59-year-old Windsor Mill man was shocked when his doctor recently diagnosed him...Tags: Symptoms, Liver Cancer, Cirrhosis, Drug Use, Petroleum Industry
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