Posts tagged "health"

This is usually what I think about when Michelle Obama gets up there and talks about childhood obesity. And while her campaign is all about making our children healthy and telling them to eat vegetables and to be active her husband is the head of a government that seems to have no problem continuing subsidizing meat, dairy and corn to the point that the groceries surrounding our kids are 90% filled with stuff that’s bad for them and made in really disgusting ways. Not to mention the negative impact all that has on the livelihood of people all around the world. She’d do more good just telling the country why Monsanto, Tyson, Purdue, etc should go fuck themselves. via Shakesville

This is usually what I think about when Michelle Obama gets up there and talks about childhood obesity. And while her campaign is all about making our children healthy and telling them to eat vegetables and to be active her husband is the head of a government that seems to have no problem continuing subsidizing meat, dairy and corn to the point that the groceries surrounding our kids are 90% filled with stuff that’s bad for them and made in really disgusting ways. Not to mention the negative impact all that has on the livelihood of people all around the world. She’d do more good just telling the country why Monsanto, Tyson, Purdue, etc should go fuck themselves. via Shakesville

Tweeting The Abortion Process

Angie the Anti-Theist, already a mother, is live-blogging/tweeting her process of abortion to demystify it for others. She is of course getting a lot of hate mail, which is scary because she’s not doing this anonymously.

“War erodes one’s regard for human life. Soldiers cause or witness so many deaths and disappearances that it becomes routine. It becomes an accepted part of existence. After a while, you can begin to lose regard for your own life as well. So many around you have already died, why should it matter if you go next? This is why so many soldiers self-destruct when they return from a deployment.”
Cpt. Shannon P. Meehan, NYT: Distant Wars, Constant Ghosts

→BBC World Service series on Women at War

BBC is doing a report this week on women in the US armed forces and sexual assault. via Shakesville

Infographic by Amy Martin that shows health care reform as the way to keep the country’s citizens/workers/future healthy. via Strange Maps

Infographic by Amy Martin that shows health care reform as the way to keep the country’s citizens/workers/future healthy. via Strange Maps

'Shut Up, CBS'

Chicago Now’s Lavender Menace writes about an incredible experience with a student in response to CBS’s decision to show that ‘I didn’t have an abortion even against medical advice and decades later I’m rolling in NFL money and so can you!’ Tebow ad. And yes, I had the misfortune of dating a high school teacher and WOW, I’ve never wanted to not be a teacher so hard after hearing her stories. Brave souls.

Health Problems Result From Fat Bias In Doctors

A recent Yale study suggested that weight bias can start when a woman is as little as 13 pounds over her highest healthy weight. “Our culture has enormous negativity toward overweight people, and doctors aren’t immune,” says Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of “How Doctors Think.” “If doctors have negative feelings toward patients, they’re more dismissive, they’re less patient, and it can cloud their judgment, making them prone to diagnostic errors.”

“When Troy Erik was first imprisoned in California, his cellmate made the introductions for both of them. “He said to me, ‘Your name is gonna be Baby Romeo, and I’m Big Romeo.’ He was saying he would be my man.” Troy was 12 at the time. A skinny, terrified little kid, he accepted the prisoner’s bargain being imposed on him: protection for sex. He wasn’t protected, though. Soon he was attacked and raped at night by another cellmate, a 16-year-old. He told staff he was suicidal, hoping to be placed in solitary confinement, but they ignored him; the rapes continued.”

— The Crisis of Juvenile Prison Rape: A New Report | NY Review of Books Blog

via sexartandpolitics:pegobry

I think I’m fighting a little case of food poisoning. And the fish I had definitely wasn’t worth it. My solution? If I’m going to be sick over some fish I’m going to at least down some sushi in between fits of abdominal cramps and vomiting as a reward for my troubles. Probably on par with my drinking whiskey to fight the flu but at least I’ll enjoy something over the next few days.

Haha: inherhips: working at the library encourages me to “get rid” of books that i think are harmful for others to read. sometimes i want to throw bill o’reilly books away, but adults should know better. this is the only book that i have been offended by enough to “get rid” of it. the first one i took home without checking out and recycled each page. the one i found today i dropped in between two shelves that will never see the light of day. i don’t feel bad. i just feel like these books are stupid and harmful. and if you want to get offended, read some of the comments on amazon (click the pic) that people have written.

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inherhips: working at the library encourages me to “get rid” of books that i think are harmful for others to read. sometimes i want to throw bill o’reilly books away, but adults should know better. this is the only book that i have been offended by enough to “get rid” of it. the first one i took home without checking out and recycled each page. the one i found today i dropped in between two shelves that will never see the light of day.

i don’t feel bad. i just feel like these books are stupid and harmful. and if you want to get offended, read some of the comments on amazon (click the pic) that people have written.