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...permanently higher level. That isn't in conflict with the other finding. Even though middle-aged men with good, stable jobs are an important part of the labor market, in terms of the entire population, they're not a dominating fraction. In a recession, everyone holds back on alcohol consumption, smoking and overeating. Also, there are fewer work and car accidents, and that could dominate the aggregate healthier effect...
Like many other Western countries, France requires health warnings on tobacco and alcohol and similar labels on processed food containing genetically modified ingredients. France's regulators are also notoriously tough on marketing campaigns that make false product claims. Now some French legislators want to take consumer protection to an unprecedented level, requiring that advertisements, product labels and even campaign posters carry a warning when they feature a photograph that's been digitally enhanced...
...Children's Hospital of Philadelphia report in two studies that parents can significantly reduce the accident rate among teens simply by talking with them about driving and enforcing rules for safety - much the way, as has been shown, parents can reduce the risk of substance abuse through conversations about alcohol and drugs. In fact, driving should be considered as dangerous as alcohol and drugs, the scientists say. In 2005, the latest year for which the government has statistics on teen driving, adolescent deaths made up 12% of all deaths from car accidents, and 400,000 teens required treatment...
...event also featured single-sex groups, such as three sororities, which are not officially recognized by Harvard. Information about the resources available for women on campus were provided by representatives from Planned Parenthood, Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisers (DAPA), and mental health organizations...
...city’s bipolar swings between temptation and abstinence evoke the anxieties of a more ancient city-state. The ancient Athenians viewed the world as teeming with temptations—food, alcohol, clothing, sex—and sophrosyne (self-restraint) was paramount to protecting their democratic way of life. In Herodotus’s chauvinistic “Histories,” the Greeks overcame the invading Persians because their army maintained sophrosyne, eating only the sparsest food, while the Persians indulged in luxuries even as they overstretched their empire, depleting the land as they feasted on it, marching...