Phoebe Wyburd is only 12 years old but already has a ton of enemies and it is all over something she had no control over. She came down with the ….. swine flu, errr H1N1 disease as did a few other of her classmates in London.
Normally when a child gets sick and stays home that’s it, but that was not the case for this little girl. The classmates found out and realized she had it and she soon got text messages telling her they hated her, she’d die and a bunch of other things. They didn’t stop there though she …read more

A hilarious ad in my morning New York Times headlines e-mail made me laugh out loud even though I’m in a bit of an early-morning stupor at the moment. I don’t want to reproduce it here because of copyright issues, but here’s the setup: two hippos standing shoulder deep in water, with just their faces and their backs showing. One is walking toward the camera, with the second slightly behind. The caption reads, “Fred, stop standing so close. I might get fat.”
How could you not click on that? So of course I did.
And I found a funny blog post at …read more

New findings released by the NIH and published in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine characterize obesity as being “socially contagious.” Translation: The more fat friends you have, the more likely you are to become fat. The same is true for slim pals.
At first I thought, “Well, people tend to gather in like groups, so these must be faulty findings. But this quote in a press release from UC San Diego set me straight: “It’s not that obese or non-obese people simply find other similar people to hang out with,” said Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, a …read more