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...different oceans. The prairies ran so dark with buffalo, you could practically net them like cod; the waters swam so thick with cod, you could bag them like slow-moving buffalo. The soil was the kind of rich stuff in which you could bury a brick and grow a house, and the pioneers grew plenty - fruits and vegetables and grains and gourds and legumes and tubers, in a variety and abundance they'd never seen before. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...shorter life expectancy than their parents'. "The more overweight you are, the worse all of these things will be for you," says acting U.S. Surgeon General Steven Galson. And, warns Seeley, the worse they are likely to stay: "When you're talking about morbidly obese kids, zero percent will grow up to be normal-weight adults...
...ever had open. Overall, if the U.S. is going into recession it is a slight recession. You can very easily lose touch with the fact that this is still the strongest economy in the world by some distance. And we're quite confident that we will continue to grow sales in existing stores even in this very difficult climate. We're finding that our new stores are doing really well. Plus our new stores have the advantage of being fresh so we can open the very best stores we know...
...half after it was introduced arrive and then disappear. It's extraordinary. There are a whole series of game products that have been a huge hit, like Grand Theft Auto. GPS products have had extraordinary rates of growth. Another category is notebook computers, which nobody really thought would grow as fast as they are right...
Then too there are the messages kids are bombarded with from well-meaning strangers ("Oh, he's a chunky one, isn't he?") and critical relatives ("Ah, she's going to grow up to be just like fat Aunt Sue!"). Schoolmates--at least those not yet claimed by the obesity epidemic themselves--may soon join in the chorus. All of this can hit a child's still developing ego hard. On the whole, overweight children are more likely than healthy-weight kids to be anxious, unhappy and depressed. The science is mixed on which kids suffer the most. One study...