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Selling televisions and computers is a fickle business, but the giant leading the pack keeps on growing. Best Buy, the world's largest consumer electronics retailer just snapped up half of Carphone Warehouse, the largest mobile phone retailer in the U. K. The marriage helps Best Buy gain a foothold in Europe and expand its business into cell phone sales, while giving Carphone Warehouse a leg up in electronics. Best Buy CEO and vice chairman Brad Anderson talks with TIME's Kristina Dell about global expansion, best-selling products and how he made the jump from sales clerk...
...group of pediatric-obesity experts convened by the American Medical Association (AMA) and co-funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on childhood obesity, which included a strong argument that the language of weight gain had to change. A decade ago, kids whose body mass index (BMI) tracked at or above the 85th percentile for their age were dubbed "at risk of overweight." The new recommendations urge doctors to cut to the chase and simply call such children overweight. Similarly, a child with a BMI above...
Does dieting even work for kids? Many clinicians say no. "We actually find that children who diet gain more weight than their peers," says pediatrician Dr. Alison Field from Children's Hospital Boston, who has been following the weight-control behaviors of almost 17,000 kids. It's not just that kids who diet tend to gain back the weight later; it's that dieting brings up all sorts of unbidden psychological responses that sabotage the process. After all, self-deprivation is one thing; being told by someone else that you can't eat--even when you feel hungry...
...child eats properly and stays active enough to keep calorie input in line with what's burned off. Kumar says the key to reversing liver abnormalities--not to mention all the additional burdens excess fat places on the heart, bones and other organs--is to detect signs of weight gain in kids early. "We don't want to get to the point where children are so overweight, they have trouble moving," she says. "If that happens, we've lost the battle." As any parent of an overweight child knows, in the war on obesity, every battle counts...
...Someren also notes that the gain in cognitive test scores is the same benefit that Alzheimer's patients can expect from taking cholinesterase inhibitors, which stall the advent of dementia by strengthening communication between brain nerve cells. "Because it gives the same effect, on average, it may make sense for people to consider living in a better-lit environment," he says. While experts don't feel the results are enough to constitute a treatment for symptoms, when it comes to staving off the mental decline of dementia, a new rule of thumb might be "Let there be light...