Word: adulthoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five days a week for 30 weeks. The aims were increased self-esteem, socialization and curiosity. Formal learning was not a high priority. The "control " half was given no preschooling. After the preschooling program ended, the kids were tracked through the rest of their school careers to adulthood...
...careful of strangers and hurry home, says a mother to her daughter, knowing that the world is a frightful place but not wishing to swaddle a child in fear. Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends...
Moreover, there are as yet no studies demonstrating that lowering cholesterol in childhood directly prevents heart disease in adulthood. Even if the thesis were proved, the benefits might be minimal. By one estimate, 100 to 200 boys (or 300 to 600 girls) would need to follow a cholesterol-lowering diet for 50 years to prevent one premature cardiac death. Says Dr. Thomas Newman, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco: "These benefits are going to be so tiny that it seems unethical to do screening." Not to mention expensive. The NCEP estimates that a program...
Half of the children that were inhibited at four months showed the same characteristics of shyness when they started school, and only a quarter will carry the behavioral characteristic into adulthood. The remaining three-quarters of the children who were originally shy will not be excessively introverted in adulthood, Kagan said...
...disease, Type II diabetics have a chance to bring their blood sugar back to normal by dropping a modest amount of weight. But not many succeed. Even more than Type I, Type II diabetes appears to run in families. If both parents develop the disease before middle adulthood, the chance a child will contract it runs close to 80%. Diabetes is endemic among many American Indian tribes, notably the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, who have the highest incidence of Type II diabetes in the world (50% of those over...