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...children become obese? One important factor is insulin, which enables the body to store extra calories as fat. Physical exercise helps control insulin levels, while certain foods elicit its massive release. For example, ingesting fat alone doesn't prompt a big surge in insulin, but fat combined with starches and sugar does. A child who sits in front of the TV for hours on end, eating potato chips and doughnuts, is an ideal fat-storage machine...
...year belong to the country's floating population of migrant laborers?the lowest of the low in China's quickly re-emerging class pyramid?abuses tend to be overlooked except in the most egregious cases. Although several of these instances have made it into the national press, they rarely elicit calls for reform...
Some of these students are often willing to put their extracurricular responsibilities ahead of their school work and when they do, they elicit mixed responses from professors...
...night patrols to scare off looters and shooters. But these victims received no help: no phones work; no police patrol the beat. None of the gawkers even lent a hand as we tried to lift the wounded man into our Daewoo sedan. It took several universally understood expletives to elicit help...
Once on the set of his own filmed reality, Ingber recognized the producers’ ability to shape storylines and create skewed characters. He admits that interviewers were “very adept at shaping their questions to elicit particular responses,” and he says he made an effort to stay on his toes, ensuring that he was “in control of what comes across.” Ingber had no control over the editing process and no say into what went into the final product, which he says he finds “nerve-racking...