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#obesity

2 dispatches

Jan 1, 2020 • Essay

What I’ve Changed My Mind on Over the 2010s

It me. (Source: They Can Talk) I’ve been reading a lot of year-end/decade-end reflections (as one does this time of year) — and while a part of me wanted to #humblebrag about how I got a 🏠/💍/👶🏻 this decade 😇 — I thought it would be more interesting & profound to instead call out 10 worldviews & beliefs I had going into the 2010s that I no longer hold. 1.

Dec 11, 2011 • Essay

Fat Flora

Source: Healthy Soul November’s paper was published in Naturein 2006, and covers a topic I’ve become increasingly interested in: the impact of the bacteria that have colonized our bodies on our health (something I’ve blogged about here and here). The idea that our bodies are, in some ways, more bacteria than human (there are 10x more gut bacteria – or flora — than human cells...