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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Very easy and very hard

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Here is something weird. This semester has been super brutal so far, for a variety of reasons I won’t get into, mostly because it would bore me to write and bore you to read. I sort of am at a point where I can take a breath now, mostly thanks to deciding that it would [...]

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Preventable death

Sunday, November 1, 2009

This post summarizes a Harvard study on the top-12 preventable causes of death. (Click on the link for a picture that will drive the point home.) The causes, in order of badness, are: Smoking: 467,000 deaths. High blood pressure: 395,000 deaths. Overweight-obesity: 216,000 deaths. Inadequate physical activity and inactivity: 191,000 deaths. High blood sugar: 190,000 [...]

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