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...highest governing body, and three members of the Board of Overseers joined to form the Presidential Search Committee. The group included Harvard graduates, the president emeritus of the University of Chicago, and the former chair of McKinsey and Co.—all heavy-weights looking for an even heavier hitter. They would spend nine months in search of the heaviest...
...researchers found that women in the moderate drinking group were 20 percent less likely to show signs of cognitive decline during the two years tests were performed. Nondrinkers and heavier drinkers were not found conclusively to be at greater or less at risk of cognitive decline, and the type of alcoholic drink did not affect the risk factor...
...travelers are getting so large, they're dragging down the airline industry. The weight of the average U.S. adult has increased about 10 lbs. since the early 1990s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and it's costing millions of dollars more for airlines to haul the heavier load. In a letter to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control calculated that planes burned 350 million gal. more fuel in 2000--at an additional cost of $275 million--than they would have if passengers had weighed on average 10 lbs. less. There...
...cause-and-effect universe of epidemiology, societies get the blood pressure they deserve, and we Americans have earned ourselves some huge problems. We are heavier than we have ever been, with 65% either overweight or obeseincluding 15% of kids. We're lazy too. Only 24% of us exercise vigorously at least three times a week. We smoke too much (22% of adults still light up), drink too much, and with our fetish for fast and processed foods, we're practically pickling ourselves with salt...
After their experience, Sweet and Cahow left Kazakhstan with lighter bags and heavier hearts as they, along with the rest of the Canadian team, donated much of their equipment to the local team...