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It’s a struggle to keep your fitness up, much less improve it, as you age. But it’s worth it. See MedPageToday.

I don’t buy it. Sounds like the shrinks or drug pushers are trying to drum up business. Details at MedPageToday.

I thought we already knew that. MedPageToday has the details.

That’s the eye-grabbing headline at MedPageToday. Just what you want to hear at the start of swimming season in the northern hemisphere. A snippet from the article:

An editorial note said that each person carries an average of 0.14 grams of fecal material on his body and a pre-swim shower could decrease, if not eliminate, the chances of contaminating the water.

The article talks about swimmers with diarrhea. I wonder about young children who, like honey badger, just don’t give a care.

See details at Reason.com.

He told the New York Post he had lap band gastric surgery.  I wish he’d tried my Advanced Mediterranean Diet first. In any case, good luck to him. The highest risk period is over. Many bariatric surgery patients, however, need additional operations. Even a one or two years after surgery, most of them are still obese.

The Atlantic has more extensive reportage.

I get the distinct impression she’s not a fan. A snippet:

There are plenty of red flags here: the “lone genius,” the “one cause” of most disease, the die-off and “wait a while and try again” explanations to keep patients on the diet when it is making them worse, the unvalidated sensitivity and diagnostic tests, the detoxification language, the bold but unsubstantiated claim of total reversal of autism, the dangerous recommendations for raw eggs, raw milk, and saturated fat and against vaccines and cholesterol testing, and more. Birds of a feather: she is associated with the Weston Price Foundation and was featured on Mercola’s website (both notorious sources of misinformation).

Read the rest.

(I’m not familiar with the GAPS diet and have only passing familiarity with the W.A.Price Foundation.)