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Yes!

Only 12 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy, study finds.

I can believe it. Have you walked outside and looked around? If I were transported from the 1980s, I’d be agog and aghast at all the just enormous people everywhere. It’s gone from fairly uncommon to just normal in less than a human lifetime. It makes me particularly sad when I see kids under 10 or 12 who weigh far more than I do.

And so much for HAES.

They found that less than 1 percent of obese adults are metabolically healthy.

That was always a scam, likely sponsored by food companies — but nice to have a bit of definitive proof to point to.

Google’s attempt to “correct” your searches almost never works. So why do they do it? Didn’t they test it? Aren’t these supposed to be the smartest people in the world? (Chuckles.)

The answer is that Google doesn’t care if the algorithm works well. In fact, it’s better if it does not (for them). The reason is that they are attempting to herd you, not help you. If you get used to shoddy results that aren’t really what you are seeking, all the better.

A shocking number of people (like John Scalzi, Kevin Drum and those morons at Grumpy Rumblings of the Untenured) somehow believe that corporations are out to to help them. I have no idea how they can believe this, but it seems a particularly prevalent cognitive error among Baby Boomers and economists. Regardless of what they think, corporations are very much not out to help you. In fact, they don’t give a crap about you at all.

Google is prodding you the direction they want you to roam, then putting up a fence and telling you that’s the entire world. Most people, it seems, are just fine with that.

Why do people feel the need to lie to their kids so much? That’s what most struck me about this piece. My parents lied to me all the time — I always caught them and it made me extremely angry every time.

Luke and Lucy crawled into my lap. Henry looked afraid. Theo asked what happened.

“Her heart stopped working,” I said. It was true, it did stop working. We would tell Henry and Theo the rest later, in private.

When I was six years old and my friend Aubrey explained to me how her mom died in detail, I didn’t think much of it. That she knew the particulars (even the word “aneurysm”) was just a fact of life. But as I got older I respected her father and her aunt so very much for telling Aubrey when she was only five exactly how her mother died. It helped her grieve, to understand, and to heal. It gave her a story based in reality to build another life from that wouldn’t be destroyed later as she realized all the adults around her had deceived her.

Most kids understand much, much more than adults believe, and get extremely furious and indignant when you lie to them, even if they never show you that face. And trust me, kids almost always know when you lie to them.