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Losing Weight

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Here we are at Friday again so it’s time for a few thoughts on food.   Actually, I rarely need to be prompted to talk about food – it’s on my mind a lot.  So much so that I really need to lose some weight.  I’m willing to bet that many of you are in the same boat.  Maybe it’s that we don’t think of food enough – we just stick it in the old pie-hole and it shows up on our waists soon thereafter.

In any event, of course I somehow got my weight thoughts tracking over to business.  Let me explain. Continue reading

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Stress Tests

When you get past the speed limit age-wise (that would be 55 in many states), your doctor wants you to have all kinds of tests as “baselines” so when you start to complain about stuff she can see what’s changed. I was told to go get a stress test even though I tried to explain that I’d been getting them regularly for the last 30 years or more. Let’s see if you buy the explanation because she didn’t! Continue reading

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Speak Up

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I try to take a break each day and eat lunch away from the computer.  Generally I turn on CNN and try to catch up on the news that my RSS reader hasn’t brought me (which isn’t much, actually).

I was watching yesterday when a piece came on by Elizabeth Cohen, who writes an “empowered patient” column on CNN.com and has just released a book by the same name.  It was frightening, frankly, but it also sparked an immediate business thought which I’d like to share. Continue reading

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