Word: idealizes
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...started looking around for a large group of people for whom there were plenty of lifestyle data and an easy means to contact them," Paffenbarger said in the statement. "Harvard College alumni were ideal. They may not be representative of all American males, but the effects of the lifestyle changes they make should apply to many, if not the majority of, men. I have not been successful in finding and following up an equivalent group of women...
...times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...
...must counteract some of the body's most basic biological mechanisms. Evidence suggests that weight is controlled in much the same way that a thermostat regulates room temperature. According to this explanation, known as the set-point theory, the brain plays an importatnt role in determining a person's ideal weight, which remains more or less constant throughout adult life. Whenever a person loses weight, a portion of the brain called the hypothalamus responds by increasing the appetite and slowing the metabolism so that the body can store more fat. By contrast, when a person gains weight, the hypothalamus decreasses...
...years at about a quarter of the population, jumped to one-third in the 1980s, an increase of more than 30%. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, some 58 million people in the U.S. weigh at least 20% more than their ideal body weight -- making them, in the unforgiving terminology of dietary science, obese...
...While Dr. Okkenborgen of the Swedish Film and Massage Institute has argued in his seminal work, Love Them Movies!, that the !Pelikula tribesmen are the ideal moviegoing public because they 'like all of the same movies I do, (Okkenborgen 786) it seems that he opens himself up to the serious critique that he is an idiot. There are other reason for the tribesmen's importance...