Rates still climb in most states. Obesity is not what you are often led to think it is. It almost certainly cannot be cured in the way the medical establishment prescribes. See my 4 article discussion concerning the cause and nature of contemorary obesity.
November 2009
- Twitter Shroudedindoubt
Reaction on the fly and announcements of blog articles
My Blogs
- Eighty-Seven Acres
Farming in West Virginia - Bag of Worms Yet Words
Philosophical discussion about values - Skin and Bones
My creative interests - Body Parts
Ruminations and rants about my life and times
Start Parts
- Preface to a Personal 1960s Journal
The making of a radical mind - Introduction to My 1980s Journal
Reflections on my life as I enter middle age - What My Body Parts Blog Is About
Returning through doubt to the faith of my forefathers
Parts of Interest
- Obama, Marxist (17 articles)
Links to my articles discussing Obama's ideological commitments. - Most Influential Books (2 articles)
One list from 1980, one from 2009. - A Primer on America's Economic Crisis (5 articles)
It's not just housing and the banking system. - Life's Illusions (5 articles)
Sex, movies, politics, family life, and cancer - Can There Be A False Religion? (4 articles)
A framework for evaluating Islam's claim to be a religion - The Causes of Obesity (4 articles)
What is obesity, what causes it, is it lack of exercise, whose fault? - Issues of Medicine and Insurance (5 articles)
How to solve California's and America's medical care and cost crisis - President Bush, an Evening at the Coffee Depot, the Homeless Drunk Man
Forgiveness - 9-11 Christmas Letter
To friends and family in December 2001 - Why Have Children?
Some people need convincing - Preparing to Die (3 articles)
How can we prepare? - This Objectionable Man
I am an objectionable person - When Is Death Not Pointless?
Death in combat is not pointless - Military Service
What being classified 4F did to my views of war - Friendship (2 articles)
Friendship is not what most people think it is--or want it to be. - My First Time
Yes, my first time for that - Burdens of Women (3 articles)
Caretaking, pregnancy, men - Thinking About Abortion (7 articles)
Why women get abortions; devaluing women; influence of men; family formation, my girl friend's abortion
From My 1980s Journal
- Oh California! (9 articles)
How God Answered My Prayer - Politics Is A Window (7 articles)
Politics by an observer - Failing at Faith (3 articles)
Faith cannot be forced into the child - Making My Mind (17 articles)
Path of Discovey of Intellectual Life - Lessons in Love Before the Pill (7 articles)
Love and sex when growing up in the 1950s and '60s
Recent Posts
- Another Big US Company Downsizes
- You're not Alone in Thinking and Feeling as You Do, Caroline
- ObamaCare Will Subsidize Middle-Class Lifestyle, Not Middle-Class Health Care
- We Are Going to Get Socialized Medicine
- Fort Hood Massacre Was Not A "Tragedy"
- Hasan Attended Mosque of Radical Imam at Same Time as Two of 9-11 Terrorists
- "Bringing Michael Home"
- Chugging Along To A Record
- Obama's Muslim Identity
- Major Hasan's Suicide Mission Against the Enemies of Islam: He Had Long Been A Jihadist
2.3 Miles Walk Route
- A Black Anglo Latino middle-class neighborhood
4.2 Miles Running Route
- Panoramas and details
Bear
- My wife says that "Bear" is my grandchild.
Brooklyn
- Streets, Homes, Neighborhoods
Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- Autumn Day in Public Urban Gardens
Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza
- Inspiring civic monument at Prospect Park.
Brooklyn Midwood
- Avenue M, Midwood, Brooklyn, on the Sabbath.
Crown Jewels
- Wonderful young people from our neighborhood.
Domestic Flowers
- Flowers in our neighborhood's street-side gardens cultivated by women.
Manhattan
- The personal and human-scale settings of the city.
Murrah Memorial
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Now Villages
- Village neighborhoods in Sprawling Suburb.
Pepper Tree
- An old pepper tree, with character in its detail and complexity.
Reliquary
- The author's baby and childhood photos in Faraway Village.
Re-Piping
- Re-piping our 1928 house.
Seattle
- Sunlight and Sight Lines
Shrouded
- Shrouds may cover, yet reveal and set forth.
World Trade Center Site
- Engaging Ground Zero, confronting painful memories.
Categories
- 1960s Journal
- 1980s Journal (1-108)
- 1980s Journal (109-308)
- 1980s Journal (309-825)
- 1980s Journal (826-1432 )
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