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...food. Three months after coining the term, he issued a formal explanation of the way the word should be pronounced: "Veegan, not Veejan," he wrote in his new Vegan Society newsletter, which had 25 subscribers. By the time Watson died at age 95 in 2005, there were 250,000 self-identifying vegans in Britain and 2 million in the U.S. Moby, Woody Harrelson and Fiona Apple are vegans. So is Dennis Kucinich...
...nonverbal communication is an essential part of the psychotherapy process, and even with a video interface, that seems to be a pretty complicated burden to put on a limited means of communication." Even silences during a therapy session, notes Plakun, have meaning; understanding it often increases patients' self-awareness, helping them to achieve mental and emotional well-being...
...uncompromising modernity of the new writing is also uplifting. Speak to any of these authors, and there is a sense of defiance in choosing to write about the present - an insistence that the stories of how Indians live now are just as worthy of being told as the more self-consciously literary sagas set in some supposedly more romantic past. Indian pop fiction might be banished to second-class status by critics, says Bhagat, "but it's not that to the people who read it." For them, it tells the stories of their own lives, and looks ahead to India...
...otherwise excellent column, Klein made a significant omission. The reason employer-based insurance is failing is not that employees fail to act in their enlightened self-interest or that employers are "slouching away from that responsibility." Costs have risen to the point that most employers cannot afford to provide insurance, and individuals cannot come up with the $27,000 a family must pay on average for annual coverage. The only long-term solution is to eliminate insurance companies through a national single-payer health plan, or "Medicare for all." Without the profit motive and with Medicare's demonstrated efficiency, enough...
...immediately negates that by citing a health professional's claim that these programs can result in people "accepting that they're overweight." So apparently it's healthy to love yourself as you are, but only if you're thin; if not, better keep up with that self-loathing! A study on dieting by the National Institutes of Health showed that virtually all dieters regained all the weight they lost within five years. Until the medical community can offer people effective solutions to obesity, I suggest that Gupta does not knock the self-acceptance route. Kelly Murphy, HUNTER...