Tag: obesity
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In Which Pooh and Piglet go Digital…
Every now and again we ‘olds’ get a signal that we have lived for long enough. There is a ‘trial’ (appropriate word) happening in Manchester, England which weighs children annually from the age of three, informing parents through a website if their little darlings are ‘obese’. This fresh invasion of the Fit Police will use…
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Resolutions
“Time tae greet the New Year, Freddy!” My friend raised a glass. “What’re ye havin’?” Now Scotsmen have a reputation for meanness. As generalizations go it is not without some substance, but a curious contrariety tends to occur around about the sixth whisky. Thereafter, from whiskies seven to fourteen the generosity curve steepens logarithmically. After…
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Into the Sunset
As months go, September went. And October came – momentously. Two things, two life-altering things, have happened in October. Firstly, and quite devastatingly, I finally lost sight of my feet. Let me explain this. When you become older in a comfortably furnished sort of way as have I, you can no longer actually reach your…
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