Word: popkin
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...Popkin says she has been a Mac user since the fourth grade. But she says her intermittent use of Windows PCs throughout her life allows her to make valid comparison between the two types of computers...
Rachel K. Popkin ’08, who is one of the over 80 members of the Harvard group “Hot ‘n Sexy Mac Users” on thefacebook.com, says there are many areas in which Macs are the preferable brand...
What most surprised the research team led by Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at U.N.C.'s School of Public Health, was the fact that today's snacks are packed with a greater concentration of calories than ever before. That jump in what nutritionists call "energy density" raises plenty of red flags, because the more calories per gram in a particular snack, the easier it is to overeat...
...kids ate only fruits and veggies in the 1960s. But other popular snacks of that era were less processed, according to Popkin. "The biggest shift is away from milk and toward soft drinks," he says. Other particularly noteworthy changes include a jump in salty snacks and the advent of "high-energy" bars that deliver, along with their vitamins, a concentrated dose of calories...
...clippings of the latest sports stats--and no one has yet figured out how to tuck a crisp $5 bill into an e-mail or fax for spending at the camp store (though that will come soon enough). No matter how the mail arrives, says Rodger Popkin, president of the American Camping Association and co-owner of Blue Star Camps in North Carolina, "if we're doing our job properly and children are thriving in camp, the news from home is just a blip on their screen...