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You stick a needle in your skin, inject a liquid, and watch the scale with a smile on your face.
Injectable weight loss?
Is it for real?
Well, we know it is being offered. We know it has consumer appeal. After all the prescriptions now number in the millions.
But is it...
by Phil Kaplan
“Sick” might mean anything from “out of sorts” to “nauseous,” from “uncomfortable,” to “experiencing compromise in normal function.”
By those definitions,
MOST Americans are sick MOST of the time.
...
Have Americans Given Up Their Own Power?
by Phil Kaplan
Want drugs?
Yellowstone Park, Forest Hills, NY, circa 1976.
Jamie sold quaaludes.
Micky was the weed dealer (he usually had Acapulco Gold).
Crackerjack sold hash and sometimes had baggies full of Dexadrine.
...by Phil Kaplan
In the late 1800s, women were encouraged to perform household duties and “pleasingly plump” was considered the ideal woman. Curvy. Buxom. Healthy.
Portly men were associated with success and affluence. America didn’t have an obesity problem...
by Phil Kaplan
If there’s one thing the diabetes epidemic has done for us, it’s created a new medley of “songs in our heads.”
Yep, whether we’re singing “Whoa whoa whoa Ozempic” (to the tune of the 70’s hit “It’s Magic”) or...