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...William Dietz, director of the division of nutrition and physical activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Children normally lose fat from ages one to six or seven. When they start putting on excess pounds as toddlers, they are at heightened risk for obesity in adulthood for reasons that are not well understood...
...experiment, that was exactly what happened. The fruits of Flier’s year and a half long study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center revealed that not only did the mice grow in the same fashion as overweight apple-shaped people, but in adulthood they also developed early symptoms of heart disease and diabetes...
...approached adulthood, my leisurely reading material progressed to Cosmopolitan and Glamour. Each month, the covers of both magazines are dominated by headlines relating to sex. Often, I have wished for a sex filter so I could abscond from the latest kama sutra special, from the array of sexual positions and sex-infiltrated list of ways to satisfy...
...lives we were supposed to have. As a 1950s person, I was supposed to get married and lead my husband's life, have children and later hold a regular job. I didn't want to do any of those things, but there was no alternative vision. What does adulthood look like if it doesn't look like what they told...
Older students find themselves approaching adulthood in a transfigured world, and no one has the road map. Some have started keeping two lists of potential colleges, says Suzanne Liberty, vice president for enrollment management at Clarkson University in tiny Potsdam, N.Y.: "One for if everything is O.K., and one only with schools within driving distance in case there's another attack." According to TIME's poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that the events of Sept. 11 will define a generation the way the Kennedy assassination did. UCLA now offers courses on "Navigating Between Blithesome Optimism and Cultural Despair...