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What Do You See When You Look In A Mirror?

I see man boobs.
Much of what you’ll find in the self-help section at your local bookstore points to “self acceptance” or “self love” as the ticket to living a happier life. We are told to look in a mirror and say, “I love what I see.”
I’m not sure that’s such a good idea. The mirror [...]

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How Does A Person Get To Be 100lbs Overweight?

How do people get to be tremendously fat? I don’t mean a little chunky, beefy, or heavyset. I’m talking prodigious, massive, positively huge.
I was one of those people (very recently, in fact).
I believe severe obesity is, for many people, the result of something I call (for lack of a better name) the obesity cycle:
The Obesity [...]

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