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...causal contributor, but it's one of many. And it's actually much harder to reduce weight than it is to lower blood pressure or cholesterol. Fundamentally, all these risk factors multiply one another, so if you can't turn one down, you turn others in the chain and you end up with the same sort of result." If you must fret about one risk factor, adds George Institute senior epidemiologist Rachel Huxley, then make it smoking, which more than 20% of Australian adults do regularly. "You've got a 50:50 chance of it killing you," she says. Statistically...
...Osteen is an irresistible target for experts from right to left on the Christian spectrum who--beyond worrying that he is living too high or inflating the hopes of people with real money problems--think he is dragging people down with a heavy interlocked chain of theological and ethical errors that could amount to heresy...
There's encouragement to be found in other comeback clothing brands. Lacoste, whose trademark alligator had once adorned countless polo shirts, used celebrity buzz to restore U.S. sales; Abercrombie & Fitch transformed itself from a chain for paisley-wearing grandfathers to a hip shop for preppy youngsters...
...begins. On the ground or especially in the low-oxygen environment of the oceans, mercury is consumed by bacteria that add a bit of carbon to convert it to methylmercury, a metabolically stickier form that stays in the body a long time. That is bad news for the food chain, since every time a bigger animal eats a smaller animal, it consumes a heavy dose of its prey's mercury load. That's why such large predatory fish as shark, swordfish, mackerel, tilefish and albacore tuna are so heavily contaminated. Less publicized but still problematic is toxic mercury vapor, which...
...toxin hasn't disrupted the birds' reproductive cycle, but researchers fear that it will before long. What's more, if the birds are contaminated, so are other animals that eat the same diet--not to mention predators that eat the birds. Says Evers: "It creeps up the food chain and continues to biomagnify as it goes...