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An Army Of One Last Resort
The myth of the honor of military service just got knocked down another rung with an announcement from the U.S. Army that people no longer need to be of a healthy weight in order to gain admittance....
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Fat Christianity
I’ve been examining the implications of the most consistent trend found by the American Religious Identification Survey: The United States is becoming less Christian. The rate of Christianity is...
View ArticleWhy Are The Actively Religious More Plump?
There’s a new study, done by people at Northwestern University, that finds that young people who go to church often are much, much more likely to become remarkably overweight than people who don’t go...
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Car Exhaust Makes You Fat Even If You Never Even Ride In A Car
The typical approach to Earth Day is to ask people to make sacrifices for “the planet”. It’s great to have a big vision to work toward, but the “save the planet” focus tends not to work very well, for...
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The Faithful and the Fat: Religion Not Associated With Higher Well Being
One of the pitches made by religious organizations is that religious belief leads to an improved life. Once you discover the truth and get on the right path, they say, you’ll find that things turn...
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A Literally Massive New Educational Program Is Underway With Knewton
This morning, Fast Company sponsored a question and answer event with Jose Ferreira, the founder of Knewton, a company that wants to place education online. In a tweet promoting the event, Fast Company...
View ArticleFact Check: Does Science Prove the Catholic Church is Right? (Irrationality,...
Writing for the Foundation for Evangelization through the Media on the website Aleteia, psychologist Jim Schroeder declares that in a headline that “Science Is Proving the Church Is Right and the...
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