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...same, the best way not to need the hospital at all is not to get sick, and even the greatest advances in treatment will amount to little if we can't bring the risk factors under control. The most important factors to attack, the Circulation paper explains, are not cholesterol or tobacco use. Both continue to drop, and with recent federal action to boost cigarette taxes and allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco for the first time, the decline in smoking may actually accelerate. (Indeed, last year, the share of Americans who use tobacco fell below...
...Cloud's article misses the point that if you eat the same amount, exercise will make you lose weight. He seems to imply that it is impossible not to eat more. But the same motivation that keeps you exercising keeps you aware of your diet. Jason Anderson, Brussels...
...After a certain amount of arm-twisting by Republican leaders, [South Carolina Congressman Joe] Wilson did apologize for his behavior,” wrote New York Times columnist Gail Collins in her column last Friday. “Now we are going to move on to arguing about the apology...
Spurred by class reunion gift committees, Harvard did see a spike in donations during May and June, contributing to 20 percent of the annual amount, but the increase was still noticeably smaller than last year’s levels, Rogers explained...
...Health Services' Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors, said he hasn’t heard of the condition being a problem here and noted that a 2008 campus survey found 96 percent of all Harvard students eating before or while drinking. But as “someone who knows a fair amount about alcohol consumption patterns,” he said he found the condition’s name to be “bizarre” and hoped for a “more technical name” to emerge in the future...