Word: developable
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...that excessive weight increases your risk of becoming diabetic. But that explains only part of the problem. Diabetes has a strong genetic component, and scientists are beginning to suspect that certain evolutionary factors, as well as your mother's metabolic or nutritional status during pregnancy, may predispose you to develop diabetes. That may explain why Indians from the subcontinent often become diabetic after gaining just a few pounds and why the consequences of obesity seem far more devastating for Americans of African, as opposed to European, descent...
...reasons that researchers are still trying to figure out, having diabetes greatly increases your risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke. A man with diabetes appears to have the same risk of cardiovascular problems as a nondiabetic who has had a heart attack. A woman who develops diabetes loses the cardioprotective benefits of being female. And kids with Type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop heart disease in their...
Ladies, want another reason to quit smoking? A study presented last week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America suggests that women who smoke are twice as likely as male smokers to develop lung cancer. Using computed tomography (C.T.) scanning, researchers studied nearly 3,000 male and female smokers 40 and older. Not surprisingly, they found that the risk of developing lung cancer increased with the amount smoked as well as with age. But they also found that independent of those two variables, women smokers still had double the cancer risk of men. Why is unclear...
Both officials identified certain sectors, like software development, education and healthcare, where they thought Caribbean countries could develop niches...
Born in Kenya and raised in Somalia and Luxembourg, Smith spoke six languages and loved music and foreign films. She chose her concentration based on a desire to develop a fuller understanding of humanity...