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Teenage Waistland by Abby Ellin Abby Ellin, a journalist and former fat-camper whose parents’ attempts to “save her” from fatness proved counterproductive, has had a lifelong interest in figuring out how they might have done it better, and an abiding compassion for overweight kids. In Teenage Waistland, she shares the story of her own adolescent struggle with food and weight, and journeys with hope, skepticism, and humor through the landscape of today’s diet culture. She…
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lyme is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the United States ─ numbers of reported cases averaging 22,000+ annually. Only 10% of cases that meet the CDC’s surveillance criteria are reported, meaning about 220,000 new cases develop yearly. The CDC says individuals who live or work in residential areas surrounded by tick-infested woods or overgrown brush, who work or play in their yard, who participate…
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