Word: normalization
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...regardless of the intentions of politicians, subsidies and price controls tend to produce unintended consequences. They distort normal consumption patterns and subvert the law of supply and demand. When oil supplies are low and crude prices rise, consumption falls, bringing prices back down as demand and supply balance out. But if consumers are insulated from the market, paying an artificially low price for fuel, they tend to use as much or even more - which strains supplies further and forces oil prices even higher...
...take for granted and all of it came from some individual-usually a misunderstood angry individual-who was sitting there saying 'why wont you do this?' and was having trouble being heard. In almost all the cases, two things happen: the point of view that you now cherish as normal was unusual and it was hard for people to hear; and [the person] had trouble getting his or her voice...
...have to do with our fears about using such pejorative terms about our children, especially if they were once hurled at us by playground bullies. And part of it may be that, in a society in which obesity is omnipresent, a slightly hefty child looks pretty normal, relatively speaking, says psychologist Susan Carnell, the lead researcher for the British study on parental perceptions, who is now at the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's--Roosevelt Hospital. "The parents are likely to be overweight. The clinician who sees the child could well be overweight. It's a sensitive...
...people of any age are at risk of not only better-known ills like cardiac disease but also arthritis, joint damage and sleep apnea. Adults who were overweight as children have nearly twice the risk of dying from any cause in their 70s than are adults who were of normal weight as youngsters. Early evidence also suggests that heavier children are even 35% more likely to develop cancer in their later years. "If you are a fat kid, you know you're in trouble," says Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, "and you know...
...lower but does not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women. Assessing nearly 39,000 middle-aged women over a period of 11 years, researchers determined that the odds for developing heart disease were 54% higher in overweight active women and 87% higher in obese active women compared with normal-weight active women. Women who were normal weight but inactive faced only an 8% increase in risk. "If you're overweight or obese, you can't really get back to that lower risk entirely with physical activity alone," says lead author Dr. Amy Weinstein of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess...