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by Danielle Moodie-Mills onMay 12, 2012
Your Take: An environmental education expert advocates an old-school solution for children's health.
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by Claudio E. Cabrera onDecember 28, 2011
Another person falls victim to a health care system that penalizes those without money.
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by Nsenga Burton onJuly 29, 2011
Intensive treatment of type 2 diabetes does not reduce cardiovascular death.
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November 3, 2010
I somehow missed the whole depression thing, thinking symptoms really wouldn’t start to present in girls that young.
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October 27, 2010
How about something similar for obesity and black women? Call it, “Beauty and the ’Besity.”
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October 22, 2010
Yes, if you were diagnosed pre-diabetic as I was, it’s better to get the pounds off sooner rather than later.
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August 10, 2010
Whether your poison of choice is pills or ice cream, it’s still suicide.
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July 30, 2010
Chalk it up to political correctness, but the belief that all human beings are inherently the same—while true—does not mean that our species’ sub-populations and their problems should all be treated equally. It’s like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, and it’s naïve.
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July 28, 2010
A woman at my job, who is in a more senior role than I am, and who is morbidly obese, keeps looking me up and down.
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July 14, 2010
The majority of the panel voted to pull it from the shelves.
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