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Overloading the body with too many calories and keeping insulin levels high short-circuits this loop and can lead to insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes, in which organs no longer respond to changing insulin levels. The result: a brain and body that are constantly hungry and in need of more food. Disrupting the insulin threshold usually takes decades--which explains why this form of diabetes was generally more common in adults over age 30 and why the more genetically driven Type 1 diabetes was more prevalent among children. Before 1994, only about 5% of school-age children with...
...about what activity means. Not everyone likes to play soccer or climb trees, and most kids won't sit still for an hour-long workout--or more likely, sitting still is exactly what they will do. But none of that is necessary. Katz has developed school programs based on short bursts of activity five or more times a day. The goal is not to follow a single regimen but to create your...
Uwem Akpan is a Jesuit priest from Nigeria. His first book, a collection of longish short stories called SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM (Little, Brown; 358 pages), is one of the most highly praised literary debuts of the year. It is a stunning book by a writer of immense gifts, and I couldn't in good conscience recommend it to anybody...
...Truman Capote spotted a short item in the New York Times. It described a quadruple murder in small-town Kansas: two men entered a farmhouse, shot the parents and two children and left with $40, a radio and a pair of binoculars. Capote lit out for Kansas, interviewed everyone he could get his well-manicured hands on and seven years later published a book about it. In Cold Blood combined journalism with the literary liberties of fiction to create what Capote called a "nonfiction novel," about two antiheroes and the thwarted dreams that made them killers. He believed...
Childhood obesity is nothing short of an epidemic. A study released last month revealed that nearly a third of America's kids are overweight or obese--and, amazingly enough, the media seemed to consider that good news since the figures were leveling off slightly. (That's like in Washington, where a decrease in the rate of spending is considered a cut.) The problem is very far from going away...