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Monday, March 04, 2002
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Big portions are getting even bigger. New study shows that portions are getting larger, contributing significantly to obesity. Washington [USA Today : Front Page]
Consumers today easily can buy cookies the size of pancakes, sodas big enough to drown in, and plates of pasta that never seem to end.
I remember when 7-Eleven introduced the Big Gulp. Wow, what I huge drink! Today, supplanted by the Super Big Gulp and then the Gargantuan Big Gulp, the huge drink of a decade or so ago is now a 'medium'. Same at McDonald's. Same everywhere. And it is cheaper to buy a large fountain drink than a bottle of Aquafina. I even went into Sheetz and saw that all the fountain sizes were the same price. Even if I wanted the "small," that part of me that wants the best value for my $$$ pushes us to Super-size.
Is it any wonder diabetes is becoming so prevalent? Healthnotes says: "Most people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.67 Excess abdominal weight does not stop insulin formation,68 but it does make the body less sensitive to insulin.69 Excess weight can even make healthy people pre-diabetic.70"
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4:57:20 PM 
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
I am new to weblogging. Yet I have 20 years of experience with online communities (early Arpanet messaging, BBS systems, CompuServe forums, email lists). While some people enjoy flames, I just find them nauseating. Now, I can tap into feeds of considered opinion and expertise from old friends like Doug Kaye's Web Hosting Strategies and get a very high signal-to-noise ratio.
Scripting News DGs [discussion groups] are like mail lists. All it takes is one stinker to grind the whole thing to a halt. If everyone has their own weblog, people can flame all they want in their own space, but mostly they just attract other losers. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
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3:13:44 PM
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Excellent article by Jon Udell on development of weblogging and its affect on groups.
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11:34:38 AM
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Jenny the librarian: "I've come to believe that news aggregation based on RSS feeds of web sites (newspapers, blogs, magazines, etc.) is the future and that the Net Gens will grow up with this as their primary news source."  [Scripting News]
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11:31:05 AM
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