tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post3293533557279130175..comments2024-03-02T02:26:00.928-05:00Comments on bleakonomy: If your n=1, it's not a studytetracontadigonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04604381739383227553noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-39309360914194842672010-03-19T11:34:20.370-04:002010-03-19T11:34:20.370-04:00Gee, you are right! Spend a year yammering on abo...Gee, you are right! Spend a year yammering on about the same old thing that people have already made up their minds about, and it gets old.<br /><br />Oh, wait, you aren't talking about Pres. Corpse-man! You are talking about me. As Emily Littela would say, "Got Votes?"Gadfly Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-81895196914357815912010-03-18T20:18:25.122-04:002010-03-18T20:18:25.122-04:00GJ, you need to update your material. Your schti...GJ, you need to update your material. Your <i> schtick </i> is getting old.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11213051268392108382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-82854253912682539682010-03-18T20:18:06.649-04:002010-03-18T20:18:06.649-04:00first off, ignore the troll, who seems to miss the...first off, ignore the troll, who seems to miss the entire point, it is not case studies it is these specific case studies that are flawed.<br /><br />secondly, I think case studies are perfectly acceptable way to gain insight, with statistics peoples eyes glaze over, the pathologies that occur for a significantly overweight child can be illustrative. You simply don't see many fat Koreans (especially north, except the Dear Pumpkin...oops Leader, the psychopath Kim Il Jung, who has slimmed down considerably due to the fact that he is thank God dying). Or many fat Cambodians or Vietnamese or even Japanese (sumo notwithstanding).<br />I think the example Dreher used was a bad one.<br />The American lifestyle helps make Americans fat. Change the lifestyle and I promise you you can take off the weight and keep it off.<br />The only question for people is is it worth it?<br />When I lived in Asia I lost 30 pounds and kept if off, I only gained weight back when I moved back to the West, and 15 years later am still lighter than I was I first moved there. Contrast that with a person who was heavy then in the states and how much more they are now.<br /><br />charoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-90006062501771290232010-03-18T19:41:20.306-04:002010-03-18T19:41:20.306-04:00Good, so can we all agree that no matter how much ...Good, so can we all agree that no matter how much we admire Pres. Obama for using terminally ill patients as props in his speeches, it doesn't add anything meaningful to the HCR debate?Gadfly Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-4998878470176756422010-03-18T15:03:50.462-04:002010-03-18T15:03:50.462-04:00Oops, I did it too! No lesson to be drawn at all, ...Oops, I did it too! No lesson to be drawn at all, probably. Just meant that what Kain thinks was going on psychologically with these people might be very different than what was going on!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953173396955681485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-80208434215121394392010-03-18T14:52:46.141-04:002010-03-18T14:52:46.141-04:00Totally agreed, and the one woman who wants to be ...Totally agreed, and the one woman who wants to be obese of course says nothing about the gazillions who don't want to be, but are.<br /><br />Something about the Korea baby story stuck out at me - the infant was premature. Depending on how premature, and how impacted was the infant, this may have nothing at all to do with a family ignoring their kid because they loved a video game, and everything to do with wanting to escape dealing with a severely disabled child. Not that that is an excuse! But the lesson to be drawn may be entirely different than the one Kain is frawing.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953173396955681485noreply@blogger.com