Tag Archives: obesity

Mutation Not Genetics

January 22, 2016 – 12:50 am

America has been plagued by obesity. When I was young few fat people existed in this country. When Big Food switched from sugar to fluctose, the country expanded from size L to XXXXXL. People think the fat scourge is natural and say, “It run in my family.” Big Pharma agrees with their opinion and has […]

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EVOLUTION OF MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

September 7, 2015 – 11:08 am

Last month Jamie Parker and I were sitting on Pattaya Beach. We hadn’t seen each other in five months. “Do you miss living here?” Jamie had been trying to open another go-go bar. The owner of the Carousel off Walking Street was dead broke. The go-go bar sounded like a good investment, except neither of […]

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THE FLIGHT OF A FAT MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

June 27, 2014 – 8:12 am

Man has aspired to flight from time immemorial. In the winter of 1971 my New Yorker friend Eddie fantasized about soaring in a glider. He had one big problem. Eddie weighed 450 pounds. THE FLIGHT OF A FAT MAN recounts Eddie’s achieving his dream thanks to a teenage girl from the South Shore. Sookie had […]

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Asteroids Away

April 21, 2013 – 9:59 am

Several years ago a NASA spacecraft passed the planet Mercury. A transmitted photo clearly revealed the effect of meteor strikes on the surface. Their impacts of Earth were not so apparent from the Space Shuttle, unless you know where to look like in the Yucatan or polar areas, but most astronomers are more concerned with […]

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Listen To Jessie

June 27, 2012 – 8:10 pm

There are too many fat people in America. Our 330 million outweigh the 1.3 billion of China and throw in Mongolia to help balance the scale. None of these obese Americans take responsibility for their fatness. My sister-in-law claimed, “It’s in my genes.” Her mother was skinny. I blame her plumpitude on what’s in her […]

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