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I got this : how I changed my ways and lost what weighed me down
This book is a personal and inspirational memoir from the author, an Emmy and Oscar winner that is focused on her transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds. Soulful and sultry, she wowed the world with her powerful voice in American Idol's third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in Dreamgirls that won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. But before we knew her as an American Idol standout, Jennifer was singing in her church choir in the Southside of Chicago. This memoir tells the story of Jennifer's meteoric rise from American Idol to Dreamgirls to her amazing weight loss on the Weight Watchers diet plan. With the Weight Watchers brand endorsing her, Jennifer gives her fans tips for embracing a healthy lifestyle in order to lose weight and reclaim their bodies. Full of stories from her American Idol days, her experience acting in Dreamgirls, and how her son inspired her to want to live healthfully, this book is for her fans and an inspiration for anyone struggling with weight issues.
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Fat dad, fat kid : one father and son's journey to take power away from the \F-word\
\"At the age of thirty-five, [digital entrepreneur and vlogger] Shay has discovered that maintaining [his weight loss] is the hard part. He has also seen how some of his hard-to-break habits are affecting his children, particularly his eldest son Gavin, who grew up during the years when his dad had 'a little extra Shay on him.' Determined to get back into shape and inspire his son along the way, Shay asked Gavin to embark on a thirty-day challenge with him to eat clean and do thirty minutes of exercise a day ... [This book] chronicles the ups and downs of Shay and Gavin's thirty days together, reflects on Shay's lifelong struggle with health and fitness, and proves that it's never too late for parents or children to embrace a healthier lifestyle\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Fat kid got fit : and so can you!
\"When Bill Baroni was just twenty years old, he was convinced he was dying. He thought he was having a heart attack because it felt like he had an elephant sitting on his chest. It turned out to be only indigestion, but more than that, it was the wake up call he needed to save his life. Bill weighed 320 pounds and was hooked on junk food. He set about to change his life forever, and now in Fat Kid Gets Fit, he wants to help you do the same\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Chicago Tribune Heidi Stevens column
\"In 1996, a manic depressive by the name of Martin Bryant, in Port Arthur, Tasmania, picked up his semi-automatic rifle and proceeded to murder, at random, 35 innocent people,\" Hughes wrote. \"The response from the Australian government, led by then-Prime Minister John Howard, was to outlaw all automatic and semi-automatic weapons, as well as severely restrict the ownership of other guns and similar weaponry, even crossbows.
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Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.
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1,000-pound New York man dies in Manhattan hospital
David Ron High, a 1,000-pound New York man, died at the age of 43 from renal failure. High was hospitalized last month after firefighters had to use ropes, harnesses and a hydraulic lift to get him out of his home.
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Philadelphia Daily News Jenice Armstrong column
Jan. 06--I DESPISE THE N-WORD but not so much that I think it needs to be removed from great works of literature such as \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,\" as one publisher is doing. [...] tampering with Twain's epic tale of the friendship between a runaway boy and an escaped slave is equivalent to painting a hat on Mona Lisa's head.
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The Body of Brooklyn
This is what Ithoughtthe lyrics were when I was a boy, when I was an adolescent. This is what Iheard. The words made sense, a mysterious kind of sense, no doubt, but I understood why the body should be so far away, and why someone might be plaintively calling it back.
Vauvenargues wrote that “the heaviest object in the world is the body of a woman one has ceased to love.” Despite the patina of misogyny in this statement, it contains its share of emotional acuity about what we see and when we see it. But I
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