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Epidemiologists love to crunch numbers - and Americans, on the whole, love to ignore them. Even the most health-conscious among us soon grow numb to the storm of statistics warning us about rising levels of obesity or falling levels of exercise or all the other numerical indicators that tell us how unwell we're getting. But on Sept. 14, a team of researchers released a new finding that should cause even the most data-weary folks alarm...
...obese, a number that at least appears to have plateaued after a long period of steady increase but one that's shocking all the same. Once those children reach the 25-to-74 demographic, their heart-disease risk could cause the national numbers to explode. "As these children grow up, I expect to see a decrease in the number of people who qualify as low risk," says Dr. Seema Kumar, a pediatric endocrinologist and medical director of the Weight Management Program for Children at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "Our obese children are at high risk of becoming obese...
...year-old living in Germany, I know firsthand what it is like to grow up in a country shaped by past crimes. In Germany, it is hard to know where to draw the line between patriotism and extreme nationalism. Few of my generation dare to be proud of our country. Of course Germany under Hitler committed terrible crimes, and of course they should never be committed again, but how can the children of today be expected to live with the burden of these crimes committed 60 years ago? It is not that "younger Germans ... are less angst-ridden about their...
...from my cell phone. Modern free-stall housing keeps our animals comfortable and healthy--protecting them from weather extremes, predators and disease. We're dedicated to minimizing our impact on the environment too--from reusing 10 million gallons of groundwater each year to applying nutrients from manure to grow our crops. Change? Yes. Compromise? No. Ray Prock Jr., DENAIR, CALIF...
...lives and values." He notes that RSF Social Finance, which invests in enterprises committed to improving society and the environment and where he served as President and CEO and is now Chairman of the Board, realized a steady 3%-4% average over 25 years and has continued to grow despite the current downturn...