According to a billboard I saw today, a child is diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes!
That goes to show how little I know about it. I would have thought that once would be enough.
Is he still autistic, doctor?
I’m afraid so, but I’ll check him again in 20 minutes . . .
Souplantation is our favorite family restaurant, but it really does give me the creeps watching fat people at all-you-can-eat buffets.
Tonight there’s a fat guy plodding through the bakery section, loading up on pizza, muffins, etc. He takes one of everything, except the things he takes two of. An obese woman decides that the bowls provided at the dessert bar aren’t big enough, so she brings over a soup tureen and loads it up with frozen yogurt, before slathering on the chocolate chips, peanuts and syrup.
Have you ever wondered why fat people are fat? Neither have I. But for everyone who’s ever said, “I don’t know why I can’t lose weight,” it’s because you’re eating everything that’s not nailed down.
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Save the Children has published its seventh annual State of the World’s Mothers report on newborn mortality.
As usual, the U.S. takes a beating:
Continue reading HW Explains the U.S. Newborn Mortality Rate
My wife’s car has preference settings for each driver. When I drive it, I get in, push a button, and the seat moves into position automatically — no manual effort required
“In the future, people are going to be really fat,” my son says.
“People are pretty fat now,” I point out.
NEW YORK — The company started by the late nutrition guru Dr. Robert C. Atkins to promote a low-carb lifestyle has filed for bankruptcy court protection, a further sign of the waning popularity of the diet.
Yippee! Maybe common sense isn’t completely dead in America after all.
Slate summarizes an article from the American Journal of Cardiology (emphasis added):
Transcendental meditation may prevent death from hypertension. In a study, hypertensive elderly people who used TM were 23 percent to 30 percent less likely to die than those who relied on other relaxation methods or drugs.
What is the difference between transcendental meditation and regular meditation? It must be pretty good if it makes people “less likely to die.”
The Globe and Mail reports that a “small but determined group of computer geeks [is] trying to translate open-source software into African languages, in an effort to reach the continent most isolated by the digital divide.”
I believe that. I run into a lot more fat people than thoughtful people . . .
Dr. Robert Atkins, who died last year, made a nice living promoting the effects of diet — specifically, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet — on health.
According to his widow, however, Atkins’ own history of heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension was “completely unrelated to his diet.”
Go figure . . .
When I do my stretching regimen at the gym, I don’t have a self-appointed, jive-talking personal trainer, age 10:
— You call dat a stretch? We got a big problem here.
— Is dat da best you can do?
— What in da name a Jimmy da Jet kind of a stretch is dat?
— Who’s Jimmy the Jet?
— I dunno. Who is he?
I’ve been reading Bruce Lee’s Tao of Jeet Kune Do, in which he says that most athletes are not willing to drive themselves hard enough, and that only through extraordinary effort can one unlock the potential of the human body.
Someone has trademarked the phrase “The Latte Factor,” referring to his claim that you could save the $3.50 a day you’re spending on little things like coffee, invest it, and wind up with millions of dollars.
I don’t doubt that under a certain set of assumptions, that’s true — although under another set of assumptions, you could invest the money and lose it all, in which case you’ve got no lattes and no money).
Dr. Robert Atkins, creator of the high-fat, low-carb “Atkins Diet,” died today, not from a heart attack or stroke, as I’d hoped, but by slipping on a sidewalk outside his office.
Maybe that crazy diet affects your balance . . .
I don’t believe this at all. There aren’t enough genes to cover all the human frailties we’ve blamed on genetic causes.
From a Dateline NBC interview with fitness guru Jack La Lanne, who will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Sept. 26, his 88th birthday:
Keith Morrison: A lot of people, once they start to get older, have things like strokes and heart attacks, high blood pressure, arthritis, those kinds of diseases that are associated with age. Have you had a heart attack?
Jack La Lanne: I can’t afford to. It’d wreck my image. I can’t afford to die, man.
