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While it is necessary to inform the public on the health hazards that increase in proportion with that number on the scale, it is just as valuable to emphasize the health benefits of maintaining a healthy weight. This shift from disapproval to encouragement would help blunt the stigma of obesity and reshape the distorted lens through which the general public often views fat and food in general. CDC will soon release the true rate of mortality, but no matter its order of magnitude, we must remember that a healthy lifestyle begins with a healthy attitude. It isn?...
...margin. Five states (Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah and Vermont) went Republican, and five went Democratic (Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and West Virginia), with Washington's race too close to call. But in the most closely watched and heavily bankrolled races, the G.O.P. prevailed. In Missouri Matt Blunt, the son of four-term Congressman Roy Blunt, beat state auditor Claire McCaskill; the two candidates spent a combined $7.3 million, also a likely state record. And in Utah a scion of one of the state's richest families, Jon Huntsman Jr., handily trounced Scott Matheson Jr. Matheson was supposed...
...summer romance between Bush and McCain was confounding to the Arizona Senator's friends and fans. Was this a true reconciliation based on shared principles in a time of crisis? Or was St. John, the famously pure, blunt, fearless crusader selling out in order to build up equity with his party for another run in 2008? "I genuinely enjoy his company," McCain has explained in a pleading tone to skeptical friends. Aides say that after Bush spends time with McCain, the President's arguments for the war are sharper...
...thought it’d be good to return,” Parker said. Since that first campaign—at the tender age of 13—Parker has worked on 13 presidential campaigns in all. Twelve years in academia didn’t blunt his political edge either. He led Greenpeace and co-founded Mother Jones, a magazine devoted to investigative journalism...
...produce a sick note. Lead producer Rocco Landesman has stuck to the medical story but concedes that Dreyfuss's behavior was irritating: "You don't want your star performer to go on TV and say, 'Don't come and see this show.'" Co - writer Tom Meehan is more blunt. "Musicals aren't fun to rehearse," he says. "These actors must be like athletes training. They have to build up stamina to do a very physical show eight times a week. I wouldn't call it bullying, but you shape up or ship...