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...meal. Studies suggest that fatty, sugary foods promote excretion of the stress hormone cortisol, which seems to further stimulate appetite for calorie-dense foods. And the big post-meal spikes in blood sugar are more likely in people who don't exercise or those who carry weight around their abdomen. All of it makes it tough for people to stop eating junk food once they're in the habit. "The more you eat it the more you crave it. It becomes a vicious cycle," says O'Keefe. The solution? "I tell people they should get a home glucose monitor...
...Pata was shot in the head and killed outside his apartment near UM's Coral Gables campus shortly after a practice. Four months earlier safety Willie Cooper was shot in the buttocks outside his Miami home. A year before that, former defensive end Jerome McDougal was shot in the abdomen in Miami in his new Mercedes just weeks before reporting to training camp for the Philadelphia Eagles. (Cooper and McDougal survived.) In 1996, linebacker Marlin Barnes was bludgeoned to death in his campus apartment. Four years earlier Shane Curry, an Indianapolis Colts defensive lineman and former UM star, was shot...
Sandler testified that two of the stab wounds were located in the chest area while the other was sustained in the abdomen. She also said that one of the wounds on Colono’s arms could havebeen received in an act of self-defense...
...Even before Cho's own words became public, the Virginia Tech killings was stirring up memories for Columbine survivors. One teacher and 12 students were killed that day, along with Klebold and Harris. Another 24 kids were injured - shot in the face, spinal column, abdomen, neck, arms, legs or hands. They have made varying degrees of recovery; some are still in wheelchairs. One mother of an injured student committed suicide six months later...
...April 20, 1999 Richard Castaldo, then 17, was eating lunch on the lawn with Rachel Scott when Harris and Klebold attacked. They killed her and shot him in the arm, chest, back and abdomen, damaging his lungs, kidney and spleen. A spinal cord injury will confine him to a wheelchair for life...