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...people's energy intake and expenditure, and it's obvious why the findings are informative but not game-changing. "These data are useful in highlighting who should be targeted - the most difficult cases," says Rankin. In the new study, that group includes African-American girls, who got the least amount of exercise among all adolescent groups...
That's precisely why the findings of a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health came as such a surprise. The report, published last week in the journal Obesity Reviews, finds that the amount of physical activity among U.S. teens has not in fact changed significantly over the past two decades, even while that population has gotten heavier. "On the one hand, we have seen the obesity-prevalence increase, but we don't see a decrease in physical activity," says Dr. Youfa Wang, an associate professor at the Center for Human Nutrition at Hopkins...
...Quite simply, it is because a substantial proportion of the British people do not want to be in the E.U. The cause of this opposition lies in the increasing disempowerment of both the British individual and the British state. Moreover, the British taxpayer has to pay a very substantial amount of money to the E.U. each year, an organization that cannot, will not or dare not, tell us how it is all spent. Elliott makes the point that the U.S. wants Britain to be central to European policy; that's all very well, but it is increasingly clear that this...
...explain why this opposition exists. Quite simply, it exists because a substantial proportion of the British people do not want to be in the E.U. They see the increasing disempowerment of both the British individual and the British state. Moreover, the British taxpayer has to pay a substantial amount of money to the E.U. each year, to an organization that cannot, will not or dares not tell us how it is all spent. C.S. Lewis, Derby, England
...region are officially plentiful, according to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) that keeps track of them, talk to anyone in General Santos and you'll hear otherwise. Supplies of fresh, local skipjack dropped 50% last year, says Miguel Lamberte, the port's manager. This August, the amount of both frozen and fresh skipjack being unloaded was at an all-time low, he says. "And it's still going down...