Word: adulthood
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...concerned that your child's baby fat has ballooned into a more serious problem, join the club. About 18% of American children aged 6 to 19 are now overweight, and childhood obesity rates are rising around the world. But what does early overweight mean for youngsters in adulthood: will overweight kids necessarily become overweight - and unhealthy - grown-ups? Epidemiologist David Freedman from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity studies that question. Though the science has been less than conclusive about the precise health risk factors obese children will face...
...about some of my favorite TV shows and films from childhood, like “Full House” and “E.T.” But my mind quickly turns to the ugly realities that emerged as silly catchphrases and smiling baby teeth faded into adolescence and adulthood. The list of successes becomes a list of bloody defeats.First and foremost, take River Phoenix. Discovered by Burton, he was a child star in the mid-80s—you may remember him as Young Indy in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...
...eponymous syndrome. Teenagers (and perpetual adolescents like us, living in what David Brooks last October called the “Odyssey Years”) have been suffering it for ages. Probably since the existence of adolescence itself—an era with the awareness of adulthood but without any of the problems of marriage, careers, or real responsibility...
...managing our eight lemonade franchises. We couldn’t even go camping for eight weeks without its being somehow tangentially related to leadership. By the time we got into college, we had amassed enough experiences to fill several personal essays. But now, at the brink of full economic adulthood, we find ourselves in a bind. College is the last time we will have three months to ourselves, unless we go into academia. And accustomed to such concepts as “Spring Break” and “Summer Vacation,” we forget that, once...
...FLDS community because of intermarriage. "If you have two parents with the gene," Tarby says, "you are going to have a one-in-four chance of having a child afflicted with it." Depending on the severity of the disorder, children may die in childhood or may survive into early adulthood; if a person who has developed the disorder goes on to have a child, his or her chances of passing it on are one in two. But diagnosing the condition is difficult and requires extremely careful testing, the doctor says. His research, published in 2006, identified 20 cases within...