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...first appearance there. (The accused stood quietly before the judge, answering politely when asked if he understood the charges against him.) "John is innocent," his father told the assembled press. "My love for John is unconditional and absolute," his mother choked through her tears. It was a bracingly normal display of parental love - utterly devoid of politics or blame. Walker will remain in custody at least until his detention hearing, scheduled for February...
...dawn of the 20th century, the roster of illnesses that spelled almost inevitable death seemed to stretch forever. Cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, cirrhosis, pneumonia, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and even the flu were relentless killers. Some victims might hang on to eke out a normal life span, albeit in disability and pain; some might even recover entirely. But survival was purely a crapshoot, with depressingly unfavorable odds. The hospital was a place where people went to die, not to be cured...
...Surgeon General issued an urgent call for the nation to fight its growing weight problem, a move that was sparked in part by the epidemic rates of childhood obesity. Overweight children are more than twice as likely to have high blood pressure or heart disease as children of normal weight. Even more alarming is the number of children with Type 2, or non-insulin-dependent, diabetes. Once known as adult-onset diabetes--before so many children started getting it--Type 2 diabetes puts kids at risk for very adult ailments, including blindness, nerve damage, kidney failure and cardiovascular disease...
Genes certainly contribute, but there's much that parents can do to influence the way their children eat and to lower the chances they will end up obese. Young children are keenly attuned to how many calories they need to grow and maintain a normal weight; they know when they are hungry and when they are full. But most kids quit listening to those internal cues by the time they reach school age. The reason? Parents, says Leann Birch, a psychologist at Penn State University. "There are things parents do with the best of intentions that turn...
...landmark study published in 1999, Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician at Stanford University, compared the TV habits and weights of two groups of third- and fourth-graders. Half the kids, most of whom were of normal weight, attended classes that taught them how to monitor their television and computer time and to replace it with other activities. At the end of the year, kids in the special program had gained an average of 2 lbs. less than the control group. Obesity experts recommend that parents remove the television from their children's rooms and set strict limits on time spent...