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...will get weighed, and if they’re overweight, we’ll have to pay a fee to account for the extra fuel that will be spent in order to lug our extensive library and Imelda Marcos shoe collection across the skies. But what of the unweighed excess that sits around so many Americans? Is it not unjust that Dartboard is persecuted so that the gluttonous can be left to go free...
Cardiologists have long known that if you carry extra weight around your waist, which they liken to being shaped like an apple, you are at greater risk of heart disease. The other configuration, being shaped like a pear, with excess weight around the hips, doesn't eliminate your risk but seems to lessen it. Over the years it has become clear that apple-shaped folks have a certain kind of metabolism: they are more likely to be resistant to insulin, have high amounts of triglycerides (one of the fatty molecules you don't want too much of in your blood...
...lack of exertion did not come from a lack of effort on the part of the Crimson (2-0, 2-0 Ivy). It was just that its 9-0 trouncing of the Big Red (0-4, 0-3) did not require an excess of effort...
...must be careful not to conclude that the absence of any change in such admission during such a time period is firm grounds for concluding anything about change in actual behaviors such as excess alcohol usage,” he added. “We really don’t know what the reality is in those situations...
...spookiest moments were conversations with real nurses, decidedly less seductive than those we left behind, and real doctors who, stuck with the dregs of weekend duties, were in no mood to dance. The trick of that weekend was that party abundance, a rare treat, came with an abundance of excess. Twelve students were admitted to University Health Services (UHS) for alcohol abuse in two days, making it the busiest weekend so far this year, according to Director of UHS David S. Rosenthal...