Health
How do you lose weight? Easy: eat less, eat healthier, exercise more. Everybody knows those are the three steps, and everybody knows there’s no getting around it, but no one actually wants to do those three steps because it’s really unpleasant to do so. That’s why diet books fly off the shelves with promises of [...]
So, I got mugged yesterday for my iPhone 4. Woo, my hazing is complete and I can now officially say that I am a true New Yorker! Actually, the story has a happy ending. I had just finished a chess tournament at the Marshall Chess Club and was turning the corner of 10th Street onto [...]
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I was fat when I was a kid. In elementary and middle school my belly was like a basketball and sometimes poked out from beneath my shirt. I would lay on the couch watching TV and go through boxes (yes, plural) of microwaved Chewy Chips Ahoy cookies. I really didn’t care about my weight because, [...]
I spend a good portion of the day online. Not just for work, but for play as well. I often prefer online socialization to real-life interaction, and the reason is simple: it’s safe. I don’t mean safe in the sense that I’m afraid I might die if I go outside. What I mean is, nobody [...]
Every other developed nation in the world has a national healthcare system that works better and costs less than ours. If we switched to one of their systems it would SAVE us money, not COST us money. We wouldn’t even have to spend time and energy coming up with our own plan, we could just [...]
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It takes weeks to schedule an appointment with a doctor, it takes hours to see him once you are there, after seeing you for five minutes he recommends some tests which take weeks to schedule, hours to wait for, weeks to get the results from, weeks to schedule a follow-up visit, hours to spend waiting [...]
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