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...always a concern in observational research. She said, though, that she was confident in the integrity of her conclusions. “We controlled for lifestyle factors—a fairly large number of variables that indicated particular lifestyles, such as physical activity and body-mass index,” she said. She said the alternative to an observational study, a randomized trial, would be impractical given the nature of breast-feeding. Meir Stampfer, chair of HSPH’s Department of Epidemiology and a member of Michels’ research group, said that he found the study?...
...think I really cared about them and their event, which was important because they were women with things to give up. Besides, I figured the gift bags were full of Tootsie Rolls, fake tattoos and those evil wicker tubes that would cost me weeks of work by getting my index fingers stuck together...
...develop Type 2 diabetes as men measuring 29 in. to 34 in. around. Studies also supported the contention of many experts that the waist-to-hip ratio is a more accurate measure of obesity and a better predictor of heart-attack risk than the widely used body mass index...
...deaths due to diabetes each year in the U.S. could triple, to 622,000, by 2025. One way to reduce the risk, according to a 12-year study of milk-drinking men, is to switch to low- or nonfat dairy products. Another is to stay below a body mass index of 30; exceeding that number can almost double a man's chances of developing diabetes, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Meanwhile, the FDA approved the smallest diabetes testing system available, Sidekick, to join the list of recently developed tools for diabetics, including blood-sugar monitors with less...
Mark Davies, Betfair's international-marketing director, acknowledges the firm is caught in a bind, especially in the all-important U.S. market. And outside shareholders, including venture-capital firms Benchmark and Index Ventures, are growing impatient. But for the moment, the firm is betting that virtue will bring its own reward--in Australia if not in the U.S. Last month the government of the Australian island of Tasmania said it will allow online-betting exchanges, opening the door for Betfair to a huge market that it had resisted tapping illegally...