from garrity (mostly a locked LJ, unfortunately for you)

Very cool. Apparently a dust derived from pig can stimulate body part regrowth. Still in planning/testing, it’s being tested with a veteran who needs to grow a finger.

The other point I wanted to make about fat/fit/health/medicine is that we have now achieved the status, in U.S. medicine at least, of turning medicine into a technical support interaction. In this kind of interaction, because it is statistically sensible to do so, (wherein 95% - 99% of all complainants can have their health concerns addressed, as a technical issue, by a set number of very well understood - if not characterized - procedures), everyone gets treated as if:

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After doing a lot of fat activist blogosphere reading, joining the Big Fat Blog (ain’t commented yet, though) with full disclosure as to my relationship with Hanne Blank, the great evil-doer of the Fickle Finger of Fat blog, and of course being and staying on course for increasing my own personal level of fitness-related activities and examining and being careful about my diet (and my “relationship to food”), I find myself Very Pissed Off.

(read on for some of my details, including an enumeration of some of the top issues I have with what people say about how diets work and how science works)

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