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When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities, reading probably isn't what they have in mind. Yet a new study by obesity researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading - depending on the choice of material - can spur weight loss in tween-age girls...
...study's experimental group included 31 obese girls aged 9 to 13, who were enrolled in the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke Children's Hospital, a comprehensive family-centered weight loss plan that addresses patients' medical, dietary and behavioral needs. The girls read a novel called Lake Rescue, whose protagonist is an overweight preteen who struggles with low self-esteem, feelings of isolation and teasing because of her size. A group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris, which did not have an overweight heroine, and another group of 17 girls read neither book...
Johns Hopkins, Penn State, Tufts, Duke, and Washington State also received grants from the Corporation...
...Magruder, a McDonald's franchiser who is a leading financial and political backer of McCain's comprehensive immigration reform approach, defends Sproul's involvement in the race, calling Pearce part of the "David Duke wing of the party" and saying that Sproul showed "courage" in taking on the task of trying to unseat Pearce...
...community at large.The weekend all started with a pick-up game with my best friends, in the mud and cold of a cool Friday September night. It continued with my family’s alma mater, the Univesity of Virginia, getting their crap rocked by previously un-victorious (?) Duke in ACC play, and it ended with “the slip felt (read, heard, who knows) round the world,” as Harvard fell to Brown, whose mascot is the Bears, whose poop smells so freaking bad. By extension, Brown smells like bear poop. Brown stinks. Logic v. Brown...