Word: excesses
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...advice for Barbara Bach: if the American-born actress is wondering about a Christmas present for her husband, she could do worse than buy him a thick pair of long johns. He'll need them where he's going. Not because he has become enfeebled by age or excess, far from it: at 67, Richard Starkey, a.k.a. Ringo Starr, the oldest member of the Beatles and - despite a notorious bout of overindulgence - one of the band's two survivors, seems unstoppable. His musical output is prodigious. Next month, Ringo releases his 16th solo studio album of songs written and sung...
...Factory:” There is nothing particularly spectacular about him, but the rest of the children vying for the grand prize are too insufferable to ever be chosen. To begin with, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback and other ideologues on the fringe of the GOP are each excessive in their own ways, whether overzealous in hopes of a smaller government, more stringent immigration laws, or the criminalization of abortion. They are the Augustus Gloops of this election: Just as Gloop was eliminated from the contest first because of his excess, these candidates will drop out early (or already...
...just didn’t feel like the book. With novels like “Pride and Prejudice,” that are returned to again and again, the imagined world becomes increasingly concrete with each reading. Enduring Wright’s emotional crescendos and Knightley’s excessive giggling was the equivalent of a siege on the city of Austen we had built. The problem wasn’t with the movie, but with the gap between the movie and our beloved book. Luckily, Ian MacEwan is not Jane Austen, and the adaptation of “Atonement?...
...found a distinct correlation between higher childhood body mass index (BMI) - the ratio between height and weight that is the standard for defining obesity - and a greater risk of future heart disease and heart disease-related death. According to the authors, it is the first study to conclusively link excess weight in childhood and health problems later on. What's more, the data showed that the correlation is linear and progressive: as kids' BMI increased, their risk of adult heart disease rose alongside it. "We anticipated finding a threshold, or a cut point at which the risk dramatically increased...
...standards - where some nine million children are overweight - the children included in the Danish paper would have barely made the cutoff for "overweight." Merely being chubby it seems - let alone obese - can be a serious health risk. "Our study shows that even a few excess pounds or kilograms of weight can damage future health," Baker says...