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2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
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2011-12-02
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Tourism
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2010-07-30
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2011-09-23
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Redbubble
Tag archive for ‘diet’
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Protein Kills the Colon
Bad news for meat lovers, which is to say the entire population of Kazakhstan. According to British researchers, protein-heavy diets cause colon cancer. and damage substances in the body that protect against tumors. Of course, scientists always go back and forth about what makes a good or bad diet, but it might not be a […]
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Men Lose Weight, Women Gain
Found an interesting post on Peace Corps Volunteers and weight loss from 2008. Apparently due to the heavy carbohydrate and meat diet, women tend to gain weight in Kazakhstan and men lose it. Some of that is because men process carbs better than women and some of it is because PCVs are more likely to […]
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Fat People
One of the pernicious stereotypes about Americans in Kazakhstan is that we are all fat. Now I know there are obesity studies out there that show that being overweight is a problem in the US. I don’t deny that. However, I do wonder how many other countries have done similar studies. In other words, I […]
