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...Liaoning province, site of some of the richest fossil beds in the world. They brought it to the attention of scientists, who took it to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing for examination. "We didn't see the stomach contents at first," says graduate student Yaoming Hu, who is affiliated with the institute and is the lead author of the Nature paper...
After they did, however, it didn't take them long to realize they had struck scientific gold. "The teeth showed that [the animal's last meal] was a dinosaur, not a mammal," says Hu. On closer examination, the scientists determined that the remains were those of a juvenile psittacosaur, a herbivore known to inhabit the region. Some of the arm and leg bones were still attached to each other, suggesting that R. robustus didn't chew its food thoroughly but wolfed it down in large chunks...
...this research to disprove the very misleading hypothesis that if you’re fit, you don’t need to worry about extra weight,” Hu says. “We found that even a modest weight gain during adulthood, independent of physical activity, is associated with a higher risk of death...
...results, published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicate that while active women were less likely to die than inactive ones, active, obese women still had a significantly higher risk of death than their lean counterparts. Hu defined active obese women as those who spent 3.5 or more hours exercising per week with a body-mass index—weight in kilograms over the square of the person’s height in meters—of 30 or higher...
While existing data only covers women, Hu said the findings hold for men as well...