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...after study has found that mothers who are fixated on their body image are more likely to have daughters with eating disorders than less self-conscious moms. Sure, you can blame the media for imposing a parade of surgically enhanced pop icons on your impressionable child, but the real danger to her self-image comes from closer to home...
...DANGER: SHARK CURES AHEAD
...risk of the lean-and-actives, and fat and sedentary women were worst of all, at nearly 212 times the risk. That's not the rosy picture the Cooper institute paints, but it does show that exercise helps, placing the subjects on a sort of sliding scale of danger. "Physical activity doesn't eliminate the effects of obesity," says Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health, who co-wrote the study with the University of Minnesota's Jacobs, "but it can diminish them...
Unfortunately, this compromise could be merely a delay before an inevitable showdown over the filibuster. The key to this compromise is the ambiguous phrase extraordinary circumstances, and the danger is that Republicans could interpret this phrase as, Democrats can keep the filibuster as long as they never use it. Especially in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, arguments over a contentious judicial nomination could degenerate into a Filibuster: Round Two debate...
...Lincoln just got a spiffy new museum near his boyhood home in Springfield, Ill. But the hometown legacy of less-than-Lincolnesque figures is often harder to maintain. An update on some domiciles of departed American icons that have been in and out of danger recently...