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...some cases, are clinging to life. Five-month-old Sohag, who is lying on green plastic sheeting in a bed four times her size, had suffered[an error occurred while processing this directive] diarrhea for seven days before she was admitted. Her weight had dropped to 2.75 kg, just over one-third of that expected for her age, and she now seems to be little more than a distended stomach, bulging head and collection of scrawny limbs. According to the chart at the foot of her bed, she may also have pneumonia and sepsis. But at the root...
...over 40. In the U.K., the number of first-time mothers over 35 has trebled in 15 years. And medical techniques are extending the age at which women can conceive. On July 8, baby J.J. was born by C-section at a hospital in southeast England, weighing 3 kg. His mother, Dr. Patricia Rashbrook, 62 years old at the time, described him as "adorable"; her critics called her "selfish," noting that Rashbrook statistically is unlikely to see her son through university. But even as the age horizon of traditional parenthood expands, many other options are now available. Some...
...Weighing a whopping 35 kg and measuring 0.5 sq m, leather-bound United comes in a silk-lined box and is signed by manager Alex Ferguson and ex-striker Bobby Charlton. The price is even heftier: $5,700, which lands you one of only 9,500 being printed. For $2,300 more, you can upgrade to an "Icons" edition that has extra star autographs. Kraken also just published a history of the Super Bowl, a snip at $4,000 - though the edition signed by every living Most Valuable Player costs a staggering $40,000. With titles on the way about...
...lost and more within two years. But why? Do all these people lack self-control? Highly unlikely. Proponents of the set-point theory argue that everyone's body is biologically programmed to stay around a certain weight and will fight attempts at maintaining a weight more than 2-3 kg below that set point. Given less food than it's used to and responding to a drop in leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, the body clicks into survival mode, slowing metabolism to save energy and triggering cravings for high-kilojoule foods. Now what may be looming...
...osteoarthritis, where increased weight contributes to wear on joints, and a few cancers where estrogen originating in fat tissue may play a role, "causal links between body fat and disease remain hypothetical." They cite a recent U.S. study that found women who'd had an average of 10 kg of fat removed by liposuction had no improvements in health markers over the next three months. By contrast, it's well established that people who merely add a little exercise to their lives can improve their health profile-though not necessarily their thigh or waist measurements-in the same period...