John Baker’s Blog

There are so many things to know. When I begin to think of the things I don’t know, actually making a list in my head, it goes on forever. And it’s impossible to finish the list not just because of the number of things I don’t know, but because I don’t know most of the [...]

A 1998 Purdue University survey found that religious Americans were more likely to be overweight than their nonreligious peers. Baptists were the fattest, according to the study; Jews, Muslims and Buddhists were the least overweight, though the researchers attributed this to differences in income, ethnicity and marital status, not denomination.
Nevertheless, there has been a rash [...]