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My baby has eczema.  Eczema is an inflammatory condition of the skin characterized by redness, itching and oozing vesicular lesions which become scaly, crusted, or hardened (and thank you for that, Merriam-Webster!).  What this means for my baby is that his face, trunk and upper arms are spotted with itchy red sores, which obviously distress him, lead to poor sleep (for him and therefore everybody), and cause him to scratch so vigorously as to routinely bloody himself.  The eczema has also put a stop to what would surely otherwise have been a promising career as a plus-sized baby model.

The weight loss industry is lousy with outrageous and untested claims, but probably none more egregious than this one. Beyond being outright professed everywhere from infomercials to the supermarket, this claim underlies much of the misinformation floating around regarding nutrition and metabolism. As we'll see, the idea that you'll lose weight as you gorge yourself with Twinkies (or whatever whatever you want constitutes) violates a physical concept so basic to the universe that you probably didn't even know that it has a name.

You don't need to be a doctor. You don't even need to play a doctor on TV. These days, if you want to give medical advice to the population at large, it's enough to merely be on television.

The problem of celebrities dispensing dangerous nonsense about medical science is nothing new, but it recently reached a new level with the publication of Jenny McCarthy's Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism.