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...called brown fat (as opposed to the more familiar white fat that hangs over belt buckles and swings from the backs of arms), and a series of papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm for the first time that healthy adults have stores of this adipose tissue, which researchers hope to study further as a potential new weight-loss treatment...
...Taken together, these studies highlight the fact that old habits die hard: any efforts to strengthen self-control, not just in eating but in all behaviors, must begin early, researchers say. "I think you can be trained to exhibit more self-control," says Dr. Ari Brown, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Austin, Texas. "But it's harder to do, the older you get. As pediatricians, we have the chance to help parents create a lifestyle early on, so you don't have to go through behavior modification or a weight loss program to learn healthier eating...
...Doctors do not have a license to pump innocent and often vulnerable people full of dangerous chemicals.' JERRY BROWN, California attorney general, on filing charges against two doctors and the lawyer turned beau of Anna Nicole Smith for giving the model illegal prescriptions before her 2007 death from a drug overdose...
...Brown] struggled at the beginning of Game 1,” Allard said. “She wasn’t getting her rise ball spins working. It was a struggle the whole first game, so we gave her the opportunity with the lead [in Game 2] just to try to continue to work on things...
...Brown went the distance, allowing one more run on a fourth-inning homer from Vanessa Leonhard but striking out seven to move up to eighth on Harvard’s career strikeout list...