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Connecticut now has same-sex civil unions! Yay!

Unfortunately, the Texas house passed a ban on gay foster parents -- not to mention the poor transsexuals, who get lumped in here for no reason I can figure -- and Microsoft pulled its support for a gay rights bill. But hey, accentuate the positive.

(Thanks to liberalrage for the first and last links, and many, many folks for the second).

An article on the new exercise recommendations, and the relationship between exercise, weight, and health. Among other things, it mentions that physically fit obese people have much lower death rates than physically unfit normal weight people. Also, people who are overweight but not obese have lower health risk than normal weight. Not that that helps me, but it does explain the folk wisdom that a little extra weight is healthy.

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Re: real women have muscles

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

I've got carpal tunnel and tendonitis and I've been weight lifting for two years now. There are ways around it. In my case, I have a trainer who designs exercises that work around my limitations, but also help strengthen the weak parts. Even if you can't afford a trainer on a regular basis, working with one even a few times can be really beneficial in teaching you ways to work out despite existing injuries - kinda like physical therapy.

There's also pleanty of weight lifting to do with the lower body too.