24
October
2007
October
2007
Wednesday Link Love
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Sugar Causes Premature Wrinkling - Back in Skinny Jeans
The Flawed BMI: a Pictorial Guide to Real Women - Flickr via Diet Blog
‘Crazy Vegan’ Teacher Pushes Diet on Kids: the Scoop - Veggie Chic
Crabby Is Happy. We Are Confused. - Cranky Fitness
Health Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds (plus a fresh new page design) - Interactive Health
Bored Tastebuds? Try These 10 Unexpected Health Foods! - Laurel on Health Food
Simple, Effective Diet Tip: Put Down That Fork! - FitSugar
5 Stupidly Simple Tips Cut a Woman’s Heart Attack Risk by 92% - That’s Fit
P.S. - We’re all still hangin’ tight and O.K. in Malibu. Thanks for your kind emails and comments, everyone.
Thanks for the lovely linkage!
And yes, it is confusing, but don’t worry, Crabby will be back to her usual grouchy self soon.
Lots of great blogs and website in there, thanks for the list! Will definitely check some of these out.
I looked through those “flawed BMI” images, and I’ll be honest with you: while there were a few muscular athetlic types who clearly are not overweight, the vast majority of those labeled “overweight” and “obese” do have a weight problem. Last year I came across some old staff photos in our school storage room. What struck me was how nearly all of the women in the photos were slim, and nobody was obese. Look at our former first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Nancy Reagan, they all remained slender through their adult years. Eighty-year-old Rosalyn Carter is still healthy and active. I wonder how many of those with “flawed BMIs” will be free of heart disease and diabetes when they reach retirement age.
Our pleasure, Crabby
It’s cool to see more and more great health and fitness blogs.
Sonagi,
I think you make a good observation. I used to work with kids before doing writing and web stuff (this was in college), and I noticed how much “thicker” children are, generally, than even a decade ago. Norms have certainly changed. Of course at the other end of the spectrum is the fact that a size 4 actress is considered “full figured” (you hear this sort of stuff a lot in LA) and supermodels are often severely underweight but held up as “beautiful” on magazine covers. Lots of mixed messages being tossed around, I think.
Awesome post. Thanks for the info.