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• Stuffed: The weighty truth behind restaurant portion sizes

  Thu Sep 2, 2010
  • No one FORCES us to overeat. Buy a restaurant meal, eat a proper portion, and have the rest wrapped up to take home for later.

• Diabetes drug could keep lung cancer at bay

  Wed Sep 1, 2010
  • Gee... just discover which drugs can allow humans to continue killing themselves! No thanks. People who are stupid enough to smoke shouldn't be coddled with diabetes drugs so they can live a few years longer and then die of heart disease.

• Iran media call French first lady 'prostitute'

  Mon Aug 30, 2010
  • Statements such as those made by the Iranians or other ignorant, insecure religious fanatics reflect more on them than they do on their targets of hate.

• Bullies on bullying: Why we do It

  Thu Aug 26, 2010
  • Kids and adults bully others because they themselves are insecure. Feeling insecure is scary and can cause them to lash out in angry, public ways in order to beat down others in order to feel superior to them.

• Weight loss surgeries in England jump tenfold

  Thu Aug 26, 2010
  • He said, "It's very alarming that people have been allowed to get so fat..." Is he advocating cracking down on people gaining weight and somehow FORCING them to diet? Or that people should be legally prohibited from gaining weight? Odd viewpoint...

• Skip the sunny side. How to eat eggs safely

  Wed Aug 25, 2010
  • It's common in other modern countries for grocery stores to still display cartons of eggs on shelves - unrefrigerated. I was just in England and this practice was common in many popular supermarkets. Eggs are fairly resiliant if they are not cracked and you wash them before opening.

• Skip the sunny side. How to eat eggs safely

  Wed Aug 25, 2010
  • To be more specific, GROUND BEEF, which mixes meat from many parts and various cows, is the most dangerous to eat rare or pink. Reports of dangerous e-coli bacteria are most often from undercooked ground beef burgers, meatballs, or meatloaf.

• 603-pound woman leaves home after 3 years

  Thu Aug 26, 2010
  • Reducing weight = to LOSE weight, not to LOOSE weight. There's an important difference between LOSE and LOOSE. This article is about LOSING weight and a woman who should LOSE weight. I wish her the best.

• Patients in clinical trials to get routine care covered

  Thu Aug 26, 2010
  • What about medical research studies designed to learn more about a particular disease or rare condition?

• Skip the sunny side. How to eat eggs safely

  Wed Aug 25, 2010
  • People with weakened immune systems should not only cook eggs thoroughly (firm, or use pasturized liquid egg products), they should eat meat and fish "medium well done" and poultry very well done.