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...drain on CIA resources. In Thursday's announcement, CIA Director Leon Panetta said that in closing the prisons, the agency would save $4 million per year on contractors. What he didn't mention was that hundreds of CIA staffers were involved in overseeing the prisons. The tail to tooth ratio in the CIA is no different from any other government agency. (Read Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers...
...critical period that health professionals and researchers should focus on,” said Rifas-Shiman. Although previous studies have found evidence linking rapid weight gain in infancy to a greater risk of obesity later in life, this study analyzed growth rate more precisely, monitoring weight-to-length ratio over the first six months. According to Taveras, the weight-to-length ratio, akin to the body mass index in adults, is a more accurate indicator of body fat than weight alone. The study showed that rapid rises in weight-to-length ratio increased the risk of later obesity from...
...people for Brazil's Health Ministry. Meanwhile, almost half (47.3%) of adult males and 39.5% of females are considered overweight. Those figures are still low compared with industrialized nations like the U.S., where more than a third of all adults are considered obese (a condition defined by the ratio of weight to height). But Malta says the trend is clear and that Brazil is slowly on the same path. In 1975, similar studies showed that only 2.8% of men and 7.8% of women were obese; just seven years ago, the numbers were 8.8% and 12.7%. (See pictures of what makes...
...burgeoning obesity epidemic, particularly among children. In the same journal, the first national survey of childhood obesity to include American-Indian and Asian ethnic groups found that 18% of 4-year-olds in the U.S. are obese, or in the 95th percentile of body-mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height. That percentage is almost doubled among American-Indian children, 31% of whom are obese...
...Zavras said. “This is a great starting point,” he added. The study’s researchers said they believe that the link is fostered by adipokines, or inflammatory chemicals secreted by fatty tissue. Increased adiposity, measured by higher waist-to-hip ratio, leads to increased production of cytokines, which are thought to promote periodontal disease, according to Hu. Hu said he hopes that results of this study will eventually help scientists better understand the biological mechanisms that cause gum disease. Data used in Jimenez’s analysis was collected as part...