I was interested in this too, and searched the AJCN for this particular study. Here is the complete article http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/4/981.full?sid=f20d7e44-bc38-4d32-a7d4-ad1766ccdc8f

I had to argue in favor of poaching African animals. In current time. The research on that one was brutal.

I have fucking awesome insurance EXCEPT it wouldn't cover an iud. I could have had a tubal ligation for $25 but no iud coverage. I had it inserted at planned parenthood and it was $195 (para guard) based on a formula the clinic used to calculate fees based on income, family size, bills, etc. Love love love it.

Little Sunshine is only 6.5 but Mr. Sunshine and I have already discussed possibly homeschooling her for 6-8th grade. I can tell you that the first sign of trouble she is out. Mr. Sunshine was bullied so badly about his height and looks (he was 6'5" at age 13, and heroin thin with stickout ears) he attempted…

Luckily she is cool with it. We let her sort out and choose what she wants to keep, and then the rest gets handed out. Even she said that looking at all of that candy gave her a tummy-ache!

Little Sunshine has gone to 3 events so far this month that involved her dressed in her costume a trick-or-treating. So far we have accumulated 46lbs (really, we weighed it, it weighs 3lbs more than she does) of candy from those, so we are re-treating her already received candy to the neighborhood kids.

There was a guy in my neighborhood growing up who worked for new york seltzer company (remember them?!) and gave them out ice cold from a cooler. ALL of the kids in the neighborhood would plan out our routes through the area making sure we hit his house right in the middle for a drink. That house, and the one who…

I posted this upthread, but this is what my 6.5 week u/s looked like and we called her jelly-bean for the duration. They all pretty much look like beans.

I had one at 6.5 weeks (b/c of cramping) and this is what it looked like. We called her jelly-bean for the next 6 weeks, then niblet til we had the 20 week US and found out the sex. I think that this is a really common story, and I don't doubt him.

Soooooo THIS! My BFF teaches high-school English and has stressed to me and Mr. Sunshine how important it is that Little Ray of Sunshine understand themes and symbolism from the bible so that she will not be completely lost during discussion of modern literature. We have a children's bible that we use like any of…

I have this too (pathological-grooming fist bump :-\) Recently the hair is really getting bad. I just CANNOT stop myself from yanking strands of hair whenever I am idle. I started crocheting again to give my hands something to do while I watch tv, or whatever. I chewed my nails for literally 25 years (there are…

Thank you! I commented on their hair last night on facebook, and I certainly didn't single Gabby out in my comment. I hate almost ALL of their hair. They look like college girls who were out partying too late to shower in the morning, and put their hair into a messy bun instead of running a brush through it. It's…

I thought Tom's sister lived with Tom, Katie, and Suri? She was the one who STAYED in the LA mansion with the kids when Tom was working pre-Katie. I never thought he wasn't unfit, just that the sister was homeschooling/nannying the kids.

This- "The idea is that parents limit the number of shots their children receive in a single doctor visit, in order to spare little patients the pain and trauma of multiple injections." Is fucking ridiculous. I have Multiple Sclerosis, it requires me to self inject an excruciating medication daily. I do it because I…

My understanding is that the body CANNOT be put on life support and the brain must be removed ASAP because the cells start to die very quickly, even on conventional life support. Usually it has to occur within a few hours which is why you pre-arrange the donation. If I am killed via traumatic brain injury my organs…

Formaldehyde causes damage to critical parts of te cell. They would not be as useful as frozen sections.

This kind of thing makes me really nervous. I have made arrangements for my brain to go to the Harvard brain bank to study multiple sclerosis upon my death. This is INSTEAD of donating other organs to needy donors because the whole "greater good, potentially helping many" thing. I can't imagine having my family know…

Does this only apply to foods that are sold by a third-party? Because EVERYTHING at the Disney parks is a character hocking junk food. Seriously, I ADORE goofy's cherry sour balls and little sunshine NEVER leaves D-land without a tinkerbell lollipop. I can't imagine that they are either going to stop selling junk…

This stuff is my HG mascara. I love just yanking the little tubes off in the bath (although mr sunshine tells me they look like insects on the bottom of the tub). Costco gets it in approx 2x a year and I stock up. $15 for unmovable mascara is a STEAL!

Is anyone else a little squicked-out by Katherine Heigl's open declaration of instant adoration for her new baby so recently after talking about what a hard time she had bonding with Naleigh? I don't know, I just think it would be hard to be Naleigh growing up and seeing on the internet for all eternity how hard it…