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• Aussie Olympic hopeful loses bet over 'mankini' at opening ceremony

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • It's so easy to make "news" these days....

• What did you think of this recipe?

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • Use chicken tenders and substitute baby bell peppers for the celery. The dressing is "lite" but good.

• US priests reportedly behind Vatican crackdown on nuns

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • Hypocrisy on high. The church is, and always will be, primarily a political organization. Start taxing them--now!

• Want economic success? New Jersey's better than Oklahoma

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • Shouldn't this article have been titled "Don't go South"? Maybe the author forgot that when the words "Go west, young man" were first spoken by Horace Greeley, the US wasn't shaped this way. There were only a few states west of the Mississippi.

• Is healthy weight impossible for many Americans?

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • Thanks, Hamster1, but I keep a food diary and rarely binge. The walking was added to my routine. Even if it only burned an "extra" 100 calories a day, I should have lost 30 lbs by now.

• Is healthy weight impossible for many Americans?

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • OMG. If one more healthy person writes in to say that anyone can do it, I think I'll lose weight by upchucking. Maybe we should consider the effect of being overmedicated by Big Pharma while we're at it.

• Is healthy weight impossible for many Americans?

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • Gee, I'd love to know what they fed that whole chicken....hormones to make it grow faster and fatter, antibiotics....And the things they call tomatoes now have less than half the vitamin C a tomato had 50 years ago. Yup, that's progress! I know, just buy "organic." Whoops.

• Insider who thwarted underwear bomb plot was supposed to carry it out

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • Sandtrich,

• Is healthy weight impossible for many Americans?

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • If you think that it's as simple as getting a crock-pot, buying some vegetables, and " throw[ing] some chicken in there and start eating healthier," you are lucky you had the parents you had. Obesity is caused by much more than what you eat, and many, many times it is not so easy.

• Is healthy weight impossible for many Americans?

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • I can agree on some level with all of the comments above, but I think this fails to acknowledge plain ol' individual differences. A meander through my family album shows a tribe with thick waistlines.