Word: cheaping
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...Unfortunately, that ability seems to cause insulin resistance when food is plentiful. In other words, says Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, director of the Center for Women's Health Research at New York University, "you come out into the world--at least the developed world--and there is no shortage of cheap, fast food. Your thrifty metabolism has prepared you for the wrong future...
Comprehensive prevention programs aren't cheap, but the cost of doing nothing is far greater. "If we don't take care of this issue now, we will have huge numbers of Type 2 diabetics, and we will be paying for them with our tax dollars," says Dr. Phyllis Preciado, an internist who runs a diabetes clinic in California's farming-rich Central Valley. As the U.S. loses productive members of the work force, she notes, more people will turn to public assistance for treatment. And the increased toll in human suffering will be staggering...
...Doubt, and it quickly sold a million copies. In 1997 Def Jam bought a 50% stake in Roc-A-Fella for about $1.5 million. Dash still laments the price but learned a business lesson. "We should have held out for more," he says. "Those f______ got us so damn cheap." Roc-A-Fella has averaged some $50 million in annual revenue over the past seven years...
Contrary to what the White House would have you believe, the Bush administration has not committed itself to the fight against global AIDS—far from it. Indeed, the administration’s trade policy exacerbates the epidemic by limiting the accessibility of cheap generic AIDS medications, putting pharmaceutical company profits before the lives of the world’s poorest...
...rebounding or, at the very least, the battle against them has stalled. Schistosomiasis is just one example. Diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis B, which could have been curbed by a more public-minded health-care system, are now spreading largely unchecked. China has had a cheap vaccine for hepatitis B available since 1985. But local health bureaus were loath to offer it free of charge, because the vaccine was a crucial source of income. As a result, 10% of Chinese are now carriers of the potentially fatal liver disease, compared with less than 1% of Americans. Even today, China...