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...have taken a multifaceted approach to reviewing the complex issue of childhood obesity. In all this, a key message from centuries ago, attributed to Greek philosopher Solon, needs to become resoundingly clear to parents, children and youth, educators and health practitioners: "Nothing in excess." G.D. Gilmore, La Crosse, Wisconsin...
...land for six years. Environmentalists hope that eventually, the area will become storage reservoirs, treatment marshes and perhaps even a flow-way reconnecting the lake to the Glades. This could help re-create the original north-south movement of the River of Grass and eliminate damaging pulses of excess water into coastal estuaries. That would be good news for panthers and gators, dolphins and herons, ghost orchids and royal palms...
...because it's harder for them to obtain alcohol. But as psychologist Stanton Peele writes in his 2007 book Addiction-Proof Your Child (one of his 10 books on addiction), "When alcohol is presented as impossibly dangerous, it becomes alluring as a 'forbidden fruit' ... The choice between abstinence and excess is not a good one to force on children...
...hedge-fund manager previously best known for winning $659,730 at the 2006 World Series of Poker--had briefly made himself the most important crusader for financial morality on Wall Street. Which may say less about him than about our society's general inability to do anything about financial excess before it's too late...
...Journal of Medicine, went further, comparing the medical records of 276,835 Danish citizens born between 1930 and 1976. In that data, scientists found a direct and linear correlation between a higher childhood weight and a greater chance of future heart disease. "Our study shows that even a few excess pounds can damage future health," says co-author Dr. Jennifer Baker of the Center for Health and Society at the Institute of Preventive Medicine in Copenhagen...