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...have to be an epidemiologist to know that America's children have a weight problem. In the classroom and on the playground, across socioeconomic and racial groups, kids have been getting heavier over the past three decades. But a new study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows some evidence that the childhood obesity "epidemic" may finally be leveling off. Researchers led by Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed survey data gathered between 1999 and 2006, and found that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among American schoolchildren...
...still far from clear that it was community intervention that blunted the childhood obesity epidemic - or that indeed the problem isn't still getting worse. Ogden admits that more time and data are needed before we can definitively argue that America's kids have stopped getting heavier. And even though the CDC data comes from an authoritative source - the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which has been ongoing since the 1960s - calculating childhood overweight rates is an inexact science. NHANES tracks kids' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of height to weight commonly used to approximate whether...
...results from these long-term longitudinal studies, many have to use baseline measurements that were taken in the '50s and '60s. And kids who were examined back then were much, much thinner than kids are now. Even children who would have been considered relatively heavy then are not much heavier than average children now, at least in the U.S. So I think in terms of studying the complications of childhood obesity, those studies have limitations...
...runners adhered to a regimen of three or four-hour runs on weekdays, followed by incrementally lengthening “long runs” on weekends. For these runners, training was no chore. “It feels good to work up some sweat, breathe a little heavier. After spending all day with computers, reading books and stuff, and with Annenberg giving you unlimited food, you gotta shake off the crust,” Novey said. Levenson described her weekday runs with her friend as her “hour of chit-chat.” All the runners said...
...with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail. In movie terms it was an unfair fight, because Moore had the heavier artillery: not his arguments, necessarily, but his camera and the power of an editor over an actor...