Against Gravity

The story of my four-decades-long struggle against gravity, or how I nearly died and then reborn, healthier and happier, having lost more than half of myself

Michele Diodati

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Me in August 2021, while wearing an old pair of pants of mine that around 2010 were quite tight

The child’s diet

At birth, I weighed 9.5 lb (4.3 kg). My mother and my grandmother told me that story many times. I was the fattest and…

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Michele Diodati

Science writer with a lifelong passion for astronomy and comparisons between different scales of magnitude.