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2007-11-07 05:11 Rainbows may not be as full as Albuterol metered inhaler.
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2007-09-03 19:39 Weighty Matters
You can never be too rich or too thin, said the Duchess of Windsor, the American woman for whom the King of England gave up his throne. More money and less weight have always been high on the national wish list, so it was inevitable that self-help books would get around to promising both together. A mother-daughter team has written "Rich and Thin: Slim Down, Shrink Debt & Turn Calories Into Cash," complete with a "Money Calorie Counter," to remind dieters how much they can save by investing t …
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2007-08-25 10:33 another look at Rethinking Thin
I finally read through all of Gina Kolata's Rethinking Thin: The Science of Weight Loss -- And the Myths and Realities of Diets. The book was a real eye-opener. I had skimmed some of it, read some articles about it, and even have written about it here before. But actually reading through the whole book, a few things really struck me. The first is that there are no new diets under the sun. Though we have a sense of the 1800s as a time when fat was all the rage -- actress Lillian Russell was consi …
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2007-08-21 14:38 Managing Your Cardio Risk
Is focusing on controlling blood sugar levels enough That's the question Gina Kolata of The New York Times asked yesterday in a feature story about heart disease risk in the diabetes population - and how high cholesterol and blood pressure remains seriously undertreated. It's also apparently misunderstood. In a recent ADA survey, only 18 percent of people with diabetes acknowledged that the disease put them at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The big takeaway is that while keeping bloo …
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2007-08-16 23:19 Lies, Damn LIes, and the Number of Sexual Partners
A few days ago, Gina Kolata reported in the New York Times on the paradox of studies on sexual behavior consistently reporting (heterosexual) men having more sexual partners than women, with a recent US study reporting men having a median number of 7 partners and women a median number of 4. Contrary to what's stated in the paper, this is not mathematically impossible (key word: median ). It is however quite implausible, requiring a relatively small number of women to account for a large fraction …
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2007-08-16 14:07 Sex by the numbers
I'm behind all the rest of the blogosphere in commenting about this article in the New York Times about how men claim more sex partners than women, to a degree that's mathematically impossible. Surveys bear this out. In study after study and in country after country, men report more, often many more, sexual partners than women. One survey, recently reported by the federal government, concluded that men had a median of seven female sex partners. Women had a median of four male sex partners. Anoth …
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2007-08-14 15:01 The "no-sex" class: Point by "numbers"
So yesterday I claimed that the actual methodology doesn't matter that much if you want to discuss Gina Kolata's The Myth, the Math, the Sex in last weekend's New York Times Week in Review section. Turns out I was mistaken. Incredibly mistaken! I couldn't be more delighted! Before I get into that here's quick point about *my* methodology: As you've probably noticed that contrary to the Mars-Venus/two-sphere model of explaining gender differences I try starting with the assumption that men and wo …
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2007-08-14 00:09 Number of Sexual Partners: Median v. Mean
Via Brad DeLong comes a challenge to certain survey evidence from Gina Kolata :In study after study and in country after country, men report more, often many more, sexual partners than women. One survey, recently reported by the federal government, concluded that men had a median of seven female sex partners. Women had a median of four male sex partners. Another study, by British researchers, stated that men had 12.7 heterosexual partners in their lifetimes and women had 6.5. But there is just o …
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2007-08-13 22:00 Sex partners: Routine observation, acute question
Via all kinds of sources check out this New York Times article about Berkeley math professor David Gale's arithmetic lesson on averages. Bottom line is that multiple surveys show that the the number of partners reported by men does not add up to the number of partners reported by women. You'd expect a little margin-of-error trouble but not the roughly 75% difference that keeps showing up. Now much ink is spilled on questions about how this could be -- about whether men are misrepresenting themse …
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2007-08-13 17:35 what's your number
there was a story by gina kolata in the new york times on sunday that caught my attention. the title was of the article was "the myth, the math, the sex." it delved into the subject of sexual numerology, specifically how recent studies done on male/female sexual behavior have resulted in the men that were surveyed claiming to have slept with far more people than the women who participated in these surveys claimed to. on the face of it, this seems to be a predictable outcome. i mean, after all, e …
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2007-08-13 14:13 The high-school prom theorem
The Myth, The Math, The Sex, in yesterday's New York Times. Gina Kolata talks about the fact that studies consistently report that on average, men have had more sexual partners than women. The article refers to, among other things, the study I wrote about in July. David Gale offers a proof of what he calls the "High School Prom" theorem -- which is that the total number of sexual partners of men and women should be the same, and therefore the population means should be the same. Apparently the s …
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2007-08-13 13:34 Quod Erat Demonstrandum, poorly
Gina Kolata, in yesterday's New York Times, discusses a couple of mathematicians who have a logical problem with the number of sex partners reported by men and women. David Gale and Ronald Graham question how it is possible for men and women to have on average different numbers of sexual partners. Specifically, Gale questions the results of Fryar et al's (CDC, 2007) report: "Drug Use and Sexual Behaviors Reported by Adults: United States, 1999-2002", released in June, which showed that men repor …
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2007-08-12 11:37 from "MoreJust So Stories"
Posted by olvlzl. Gina Kolata of the New York Times New Service began a recent piece in the usual way, with an explanation steeped in the current fashion for explaining everything as being an expression of an ancient and adaptive genetic heritage: Everyone knows men are promiscuous by nature. It's part of the genetic strategy that evolved to help men spread their genes far and wide. The strategy is different for a woman, who must go through so much just to have a baby and then nurture it. She is …
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2007-08-05 14:25 Return of the Sunday Papers and Mum's the Word
I'm back home now after a great week in Colorado, and it was really great to settle back into my Sunday morning ritual of reading the NY Times .When I first started blogging I posted a weekly reflection on those Sunday readings in a feature called the " Sunday Papers ". I kept doing it until last March ( here was my last posting ). I guess since then I really hadn't found much worth sharing, until today, when I read a couple of things that said to me " post about it !" First, Gina Kolata wrote a …
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2007-07-27 17:50 Like a Virus
Gina Kolata writes on the front page of the New York Times: Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, researchers are reporting today. When one person gains weight, close friends tend to gain weight, too. It's much like a virus, you see. It's not a virus. We know what a virus is. Obesity is not a virus. But it's like a virus. It's much like a virus. You see, the more it's LIKE a virus, the more increasing obesity is like an epidemic rather than a failure of personal responsibi …
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2007-07-27 02:32 Coming soon: Big Brother is watching you--eat
You've no doubt read about the this article in the New York Times by Gina Kolata, in which she covers the "fat is contagious" study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. As a fellow journalist, I understand that Kolata had to cover the story. An obesity reporter's gotta cover what an obesity reporter's gotta cover (which is why I left the world of hard news long ago). But the tone of this article is a little too uncritical in my opinion, a little too quick to accept the study's dubio …
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2007-07-26 18:43 My "friendship" resolutions and one of my most thrilling happiness-project adventure stories.
One of my areas of concentration for the happiness project is friendship, and my sub-resolutions include Bring people together and Help people think big. Bring people together came from my realization that the one of the most thoughtful gestures is to help friends connect with other people setting up single friends, recommending people for jobs, etc. Help people think big came from my realization that words of enthusiasm and confidence from a friend can genuinely inspire someone to t …
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2007-07-19 22:12 Got a Weight Problem You REALLY Should Read This.
The book (a current best-seller) is: "Rethinking Thin - The New Science of Weight Loss - and the Myths" by Gina Kolata. "An incisive, thought-provoking examination of a subject that concerns us all. This book will educate and illuminate those seeking solid information about the struggle to lose weight." - Jerome Groopman, M.D. Will it ever! Has anyone read this yet If so, I would love to hear your comments on it. Ever suspect that there are people who are just naturally thin Ever feel that there …
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2007-07-19 11:42 what happened to The Beck Diet Solution
Some of you may be wondering why I stopped posting about The Beck Diet Solution after blogging about it every day for a while. Or not. But I thought it was worth mentioning, anyway. I probably quit this program in the same place that 99% of other people who picked up the book quit: Day 14. Why Day 14 Today, you're going to write a food plan that includes everything you're going to eat tomorrow. And, tomorrow, you'll check off whatever you eat that's on the plan and write down any food you eat th …
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2007-07-18 02:31 The war on fat, in someone else's words
I won't say where I found this, but this post was written in response to someone raising the question of whether, perhaps, obesity might not be a completely evil phenomenon: "Obesity is unhealthy. There is no doubt about it. It increases the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes (and subsequent problems with high blood pressure, kidney disease, and major foot problems, including multiple surgeries and amputations), stroke (partly secondary to the high blood pressure), arthritis (f …
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2007-07-15 23:04 Cure versus Prevention (flies edition)
How to reduce flies Here s one way: A Chinese city suburb has set a bounty on dead flies in a bid to promote public hygiene. .. Xigong, a district of Luoyang in the central province of Henan, paid out more than 1,000 yuan ($125) for about 2,000 dead flies on July 1, the day it launched the scheme with the aim of encouraging cleanliness in residential areas.. . An Internet user said that although the office had good intentions, the action itself had made the district a laughing stock. The key po …
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2007-06-29 16:48 Adoption and Fat
Last night, a reader named Becky drew my attention to Broadsheet's coverage of Kylie Lannigan's fight to adopt a child. Lannigan and her husband spent three years jumping through bureaucratic hoops and were deemed potentially wonderful parents -- except that Lannigan weighs 277 pounds. The last hoop they want her to jump through Losing more than 110 pounds. In addition to how outrageous that is on its face, one reason Lannigan is fat is the same reason she's trying to adopt: PCOS. She has a medi …
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