Word: leaning
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...were making the decision I think I would lean towards giving students the choice, because I think that the economic principle of consumer sovereignty should generally be followed unless there’s a very compelling case against it,” Laibson says...
...glycogen--a form of energy derived from sugar and stored in muscles and certain organs--and her body starts running on fat and whatever calories she gets from the food she eats while racing. Most adventure racers put on a few pounds during prerace training. Even a lean athlete, who typically carries only 4% to 6% body fat, can access about 40,000 calories of energy--enough, says Ian Adamson, a champion adventure-racer captain, "to run coast to coast across...
...Society ... [The fitness obsession] seized folks overnight, and the sport of mass running had begun. Suburbanites jogged like herds of oestrous gazelles down side streets. Marriages were threatened when one spouse trained for a marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudits and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. -TIME...
...sure, no one is ever likely to deny the actuarial fact that staying lean and active is one of the best routes to a long life. Many studies point out that excess weight is associated not only with a lot of frequently cited dangers--diabetes, stroke, heart disease, sleep apnea and joint problems among them--but also with many less frequently cited ones, such as cancer. A recent study of 135 men, published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation, seems to confirm this, acknowledging that while getting fit is associated with reducing a number of health risks, failing...
More common, if less headline making, than the fat-and-fit are people who are very heavy and not terribly healthy but at least improving. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study of 116,000 women and reported that lean but sedentary subjects had a 55% greater chance of dying prematurely than lean and active ones. Fat and active women were worse off still, with almost twice the risk of the lean-and-actives, and fat and sedentary women were worst of all, at nearly 212 times the risk. That's not the rosy picture the Cooper...