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I, for one, consider it just what the HBO original series advertisements call all their creations: “original, groundbreaking, award-winning,” etc. Deadwood (with its season two finale scheduled for May 22) is the unpolished, warts-and-all truth about the settling of the American frontier.
With the CDC still wiping egg off their collective faces and the "size-acceptance" caucus shouting huzzahs to every media outlet that will listen, it is clearly time for something to change in our proselytizing about the risks (or, lack thereof) of being overweight. You know that an issue is unclear when even the plaintiff bar cannot seem to pick a side in the ever-growing controversy. One group of lawyers are salivating over the prospects of making the food industry the next tobacco class-action suit; the others have proclaimed the only thing to fear about obesity is obesity treatment and are still counting their booty from the “Fen-Phen” fiasco.
It seemed to Mr. Lyman that a large contingent of American liberals were actively seeking Canadian citizenship and fleeing, what they feel, is a worsening of the American political and social scene.
"Our objective will be to spot these intruders with the aid of binoculars - telescopes - night vision scopes, and inform the U.S. Border Patrol of the location of the trespassers so that border patrol agents can intercept and detain them.
A new coalition of patients, attorneys, doctors and hospitals across the nation has an indea to keep liability costs and medical erros down at the same time. The group is called the Sorry Works! Coalition. It's members desrcibe the idea like this:
I have come to the conclusion that this disease is, primarily, a psychiatric disease. Certainly there are metabolic and endocrine conditions that can lead to obesity. However, for the vast majority of patients afflicted with this disease, it is clearly a well-defined psychological mind set that leads to the self-perpetuating set of behaviors manifests themselves in the physical state of obesity.
As I look around, I see a more pernicious form of segregation today than I saw 30 years ago. It appears to me that we are moving farther and farther away from a "color blind" society and closer and closer to a more subtle, but no less distinct, form of segregation.
Some observers have taken note of Senator Clinton's recent shift and reacted with a conniption of resounding proportion. But I have a different take on the recent speeches and remarks. I think Hillary might be the first post-2004 debacle Democrat to actually "get it."
Dr. Leopold Smeglin published today, in the prestigious Journal of Extreme Makeovers, amazing results of his groundbreaking "Low-Fad" Diet which included results from over 1000 failed diet patients.
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