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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/12/09

    In reply to If You Want to Lose Weight, Have a Baby

    Before you dismiss this, look at the evidence. #health
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: Uh, click to enlarge, THEN look at the evidence. Damn Gawker crop gremlins. #health
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    11/12/09

    In reply to If You Want to Lose Weight, Have a Baby
    The NYT is so pathetic when it comes to reporting on health issues that it should be banned from doing so from this point forward.

    The "study" the story is built around was an epidemiological study, so it's based on correlations and data-mining, which anyone knows can be outcome-controlled simply by changing the end points.

    The Times devotes one paragraph to this:

    A small double-blind randomized study conducted at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center found that non-lactating women lost more body fat than lactating women at six months, and at a faster rate.

    A double-blind randomized study is going to be far more accurate than data mining. Perhaps the danish people who tend to breast feed also tend to have more resilient metabolisms, or have different gut bacteria (which is usually genetic with geographic influences). But for the Times, all that really matters is press-release reporting and propagating nutrition myths. #health
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    Image of Buttafooco Buttafooco
    11/12/09

    In reply to If You Want to Lose Weight, Have a Baby
    I can see a new classifieds section going up on Craigslist for men willing to suckle lactating mums. But wait........it says small humans. Damn you! Men from NJ... #health
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    11/12/09

    In reply to If You Want to Lose Weight, Have a Baby
    And remember when choosing that black is far more slimming than white. #health
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/12/09

    In reply to If You Want to Lose Weight, Have a Baby
    Another option is to have H1N1 followed up by pneumonia. Let me tell you, it works wonders. #health
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    Image of Lucky Lucky
    11/12/09

    @momof3wildkids: It's the influenza diet! It's free, except for the medical bills that you'll be slapped with when you develop life threatening complications. Otherwise, a total deal - no expensive meal plan or work out equipment! #health
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/12/09

    @Lucky: Exactly. It is the ideal diet plan for a couch potato. After my lungs stopped filling with fluid, I must have dropped a good 5 pounds.

    All told, in the past three weeks I've dropped over 12 lbs and all I did was NOTHING.
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    Image of Lucky Lucky
    11/12/09

    @momof3wildkids: I wasn't as bad as you, but I came down with the flu (I'm assuming swine strain) a couple weeks ago and it wasn't at all fun. Had some mild asthma problems, but nothing serious. Hope you're feeling better! #health
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/12/09

    @Lucky: Thanks, I think I turned a corner today. #health
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    Image of jaxdesert jaxdesert
    11/12/09

    @momof3wildkids: Isn't it awesome? I can't wait till my next round of botulism. This is why I am obsessed with danger-foods like raw beef and sushi from odd places. #health
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/12/09

    @jaxdesert: I had a friend who had tainted raspberries from Guatamala about 12 years ago. She looked fabulous for an entire summer until she had to do something to clear up the infection.

    Now, at the ripe ole age of 42, she frantically scans the supermarket aisle to find out from where the winter raspberries are imported. Hard to find some from Guatamala. #health
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11/12/09

    In reply to If You Want to Lose Weight, Have a Baby
    This sucks. My girlfriend has been trying to get me pregnant for years, but I'm still stuck with no baby and my big old beer gut. #health
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/12/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: You are in luck!! You don't have to create a dependent to knock off that beer gut. You can become a "Milkman." [www.unassistedchildbirth.com]

    I've got an old breast pump for sale. #health
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    Image of Magister Magister
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    People have been jogging with strollers for at least a decade. Is this some kind of new trend, or are they just re-running an old piece to prop-up the profits?
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    Image of homovegetarian homovegetarian
    10/01/09

    @Magister: more like over two decades, since the mid-80s. but then they were used by regular people who just into running. that is less than important than whatever rich people find interesting right now.
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    Image of shag_carpet_bomb shag_carpet_bomb
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    Actually, that BOB jogger is pretty awesome! I do run with it, it is harder than running alone, but I can't afford a babysitter, or a gym (with a babysitter) and I talked my MIL into buying it for us as a family gift. It's also the best stroller ever. Also, I'm doing a marathon in 5 weeks! yay me! What was this post about?
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    Image of doctorzizmor doctorzizmor
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    If she hurts both hands, will Michelle Slatella stop writing her column?
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    I can't imagine having to learn to serve with the other arm. Most would just wait till it's healed.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    Why do I think that woman looks like Richard Belzer with pigtails?
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/01/09

    @mattchew03: dun dun!
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    10/01/09

    @mattchew03: Huh. I was thinking Anthony Kiedis.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    But what of the decidedly portly men who ride New Jersey Transit with large briefcase/suitcase/wheelbarrow push carts that in their haste to run full-out at .05 miles per hour to catch the next damnable train taking them further into the bowels of New Jersey, they simultaneously run over your pinkie toe (in strappy sandals), sexually molest you with their triple-ton girth full of beer and cheese fries, and surely blow pig-aids infused spittle in your direction from the extreme exertion of "big belly/small legs" physical effort, half a masticated cow hovering near their intestines, and the fight to choke back imminent immediate angina...i.e. you've been squashed, stepped on, and practically airlifted back over the bridge to Manhattan where you obviously should have never left.

    Does this qualify as an intense workout?
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    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    10/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: too much. tone it down or vomit will ensue on the keyboards of gawkerites everywhere.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/01/09

    @thegreatfratsby: Uh, sorry, but I think these commuter Robeasts should get their own NYT trend piece. If I have to fight one once a week, by God somebody better start talking about it! Yupsters with strollers are nothing compared to a large Jerseyite with a wheeled trunk full of (pot roast?) for a battering ram.
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    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    10/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I'll one up you. Ever been to Boston? Imagine that Jerseyite with a Boston accent, a volume-control issue, and a haht fulla huht cuz the sahx lost.

    And he's sneezing on you.

    And the train's delayed because Chinatown Station has lit on fire. (This actually happened--FengHua immediately offered to buy it and add it to their bus fleet).
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/01/09

    @thegreatfratsby: The New Jersey PATH train in its entirety.

    Ride during rush hour. It's a savory experience. Rare to find B.O. that potent outside of a 8th grade locker room on turkey sub day. Like being inside a garbonzo beaned armpit.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    I don't think the worst error is when you don't even try... it's when you're a thirty-something-year-old woman still acting like a high schooler just because of tennis.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    Sure, I still run, after the kids are in bed, when it's dark, and dodging texting teen drivers. But I sure as shit don't have time to pose for photographs in front of stunning New England fall foliage.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    10/01/09

    @CaptainFantastic: I wish we were neighbors, Captain. We could take photographs of each other running in our night vision goggles.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    10/01/09

    @Mama Penguino: If we were neighbors, we could go for our evening "jog."
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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    10/01/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Tut tut. What would the OTHER neighbors think?
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    Image of friendslikeJimRome friendslikeJimRome
    10/01/09

    In reply to But What Will Parenthood Mean For Your Yuppie Fitness Routine?
    Oh, the pressure cooker that the burbs have turned into. Besides not letting your tennis team down, you've GOT to get your kids into the right school, coordinate the maid and lawn service for two houses, and get to the gym before noon. If these women didn't all have law degrees, I don't know how they'd survive.
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