Submit a Story!
Votes
vote down flag
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 10/28/2008
The end of the war on fat?
—
John Tierney asks how long it will be until we have a drug that can make everyone thin.  I wonder whether, if we got one, everyone would still want to be thin.  The obsession with thinness is a wealth marker.  Just as it only became cool to get a tan when most working stiffs were ...
tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/28/2008
The End of Fat?
— tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com — How long until there's a drug that makes it easy for anyone to be thin? My question... is prompted by a a report in the Lancet from a team of Danish researchers who found that a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, was twice as effective as ... (more) The End of Fat?
Comments vote down Megan McArdle found this 10/28/2008found this
powerlineblog.com - 11/1/2008
The Fat Lady Is Still Warming Up
— powerlineblog.com — From Drudge : Zogby's polling yesterday had John McCain pulling into a one-point lead, 48-47, over Barack... Obama. That result is an outlier, I suppose, but Obama has never been able to seal the deal with the voters and quite a few remain undecided, ... (more) The Fat Lady Is Still Warming Up

Comments vote down The Mahablog found this 11/1/2008found this

Blog Reactions

The Buck Stops Here:  Weight Loss Pill

Comments
Blog Reactions

Weight Loss Pill
The Buck Stops Here — Megan McArdle points to a John Tierney article about a new medical study about "a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, [that] was twice as effective as existing drugs in helping people lose weight." The assumption seems to be that a weight-loss drug would produce the health benefits of losing weight. Count me as dubious. I'd bet that if you have an unhealthy diet and an unduly low amount of exercise, losing weight via a pill would not produce the same benefits (or any benefits at all) as if you changed your diet/exercise habits. By analogy, ...

Related Content
The Politics of Fat
weeklystandard.com 12/27/2008 — A hefty problem for the left. by Andrew Ferguson 01/05/2009, Volume 014, Issue 16
Get your war on
236.com 11/10/2008 — Get your war on
Time to end the war on drugs?
hotair.com 12/5/2008 — Read this post »
The War to End All Wars
op-for.com 11/12/2008 — My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Listening to the War to End All Wars
corner.nationalreview.com 11/11/2008 — Terry Teachout has an interesting post on a recording of battle from WWI that was saved so people would one day know what war sounds like, since it was about to vanish from the face of the earth.
First thoughts: The big, fat "O"
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 1/29/2009 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** The big, fat "O": Despite Obama traveling to Capitol Hill to meet with them in private, despite including one of their former members (Ray LaHood) in his cabinet, and despite inviting their ...
Too Fat to Work
moonbattery.com 3/27/2009 — The headline says it all : Family Who Are 'Too Fat to Work' Say £22,000 Worth of Benefits Is Not Enough Some details anyway: The Chawner family of four weighs a combined 1,162 pounds. They haven't worked in 11 years. They're too busy ...
The End?
johnschwenkler.wordpress.com 10/20/2008 — Via Will Wilkinson, I see that Brink Lindsey has helpfully taken apart Jacob Weisberg’s ridiculous argument series of almost entirely unargued-for statements claiming that the financial crisis disproves libertarianism, thus saving me the trouble ...
Are parents responsible when kids are fat?
drhelen.blogspot.com 12/12/2008 — Katherine Berry at PJM has a column entitled, "Fat Kids Have Their Parents to Blame" with an accompanying caption, "Childhood obesity ultimately comes down to the choices mom and dad make." I am not sure I agree entirely with this. Parents may be in ...
Iraq vets are fat
mudvillegazette.com 2/12/2009 — I linked to this story the other day now James Taranto takes issue with it. Not with me, the story I linked. He picks apart this article with facts and ends up with more questions than answers and now it seems the U.S. Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center got back to him with a ...