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...studies have found evidence linking rapid weight gain in infancy to a greater risk of obesity later in life, this study analyzed growth rate more precisely, monitoring weight-to-length ratio over the first six months. According to Taveras, the weight-to-length ratio, akin to the body mass index in adults, is a more accurate indicator of body fat than weight alone. The study showed that rapid rises in weight-to-length ratio increased the risk of later obesity from 20 to 40 percent, a risk Taveras called “not insignificant.” Clifford...
...dangerous over-20 range have nearly doubled. "No one ever talks about how much they like history on MySpace. They talk about how hot they are," Twenge said. Then she said some other stuff, but unfortunately I stopped listening when she told me I was in the index of her book. Page 106. Check...
...staff were the smallest of small potatoes in NCAA recruiting violations, even if they had proven to be true. Just as claims about Harvard’s “lowering of academic standards” for basketball are overblown—the Crimson’s Academic Index for men’s basketball during Frank Sullivan’s tenure was well above the Ivy average, and regressing to the Ivy mean hardly constitutes a sacrifice of academic principles—concerns about Amaker’s recruiting are unjustified. Other Ivy schools should be concerned about...
...index is lately yielding more than Treasuries, be it the T-bill, the five-year note or the 10 year. This is quite rare, but is it significant? Whenever the dividend yield on the S&P 500 rises above 3%, which it has, that's significant, even if it's not above the 10-year Treasury. It says stocks are attractive. That said, we are very cautious about what to own in this market. Bottom line: If you can find high-quality companies - meaning they have a good balance sheet and provide yield - we think for the long-term investor...
...tackle the burgeoning obesity epidemic, particularly among children. In the same journal, the first national survey of childhood obesity to include American-Indian and Asian ethnic groups found that 18% of 4-year-olds in the U.S. are obese, or in the 95th percentile of body-mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height. That percentage is almost doubled among American-Indian children, 31% of whom are obese...