Word: journalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Compensation Problem Earlier this year, the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE - PLoS is the nonprofit Public Library of Science - published a remarkable study supervised by a colleague of Ravussin's, Dr. Timothy Church, who holds the rather grand title of chair in health wisdom at LSU. Church's team randomly assigned into four groups 464 overweight women who didn't regularly exercise. Women in three of the groups were asked to work out with a personal trainer for 72 min., 136 min., and 194 min. per week, respectively, for six months. Women in the fourth cluster, the control group, were...
...although the muscle-fat relationship is often misunderstood. According to calculations published in the journal Obesity Research by a Columbia University team in 2001, a pound of muscle burns approximately six calories a day in a resting body, compared with the two calories that a pound of fat burns. Which means that after you work out hard enough to convert, say, 10 lb. of fat to muscle - a major achievement - you would be able to eat only an extra 40 calories per day, about the amount in a teaspoon of butter, before beginning to gain weight. Good luck with that...
...much worse than we would have expected," says Richard Tremblay, a psychology professor at the University of Montreal and a co-author of the study, which was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. "By having them live together, they form relationships. It's more likely to increase the problem...
...tense meeting, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, took place at the Treasury department Friday afternoon and was attended by top regulators from all the major oversight bodies, including the FDIC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Fed and others. As he talked about the state of the Administration's proposal introduced last spring, Geithner started swearing about the need for regulatory reform to move forward. "There was liberal use of expletives," says an official briefed on the meeting. "Obviously it made some people uncomfortable." (See 25 people...
...study published in the journal Science in 2006, a group of scientists reported that they had recorded enormous water turbulence in a fjord in Canada caused by a swarm of swimming krill. These tiny shrimplike organisms have a predictable up-and-down movement: during the day, they descend several hundred feet in the ocean, where there is less light and fewer predators; as the sun sets, they swim up to the surface to feed. Swarms of krill can be massive - some the size of Rhode Island - so oceanographers have suspected that their movements may cause significant ocean-mixing. But despite...