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...annual earnings top out around $200,000. Some pro women have had to drop out of the competitions because they cannot afford plane tickets to events. "Life on tour is far from glamorous," wrote American Holly Beck on an online message board during the recent Lacanau event. "Girls sleep in sleeping bags at the contest sites because they can't afford hotel rooms. I'm in France right now, and we have five people staying in a room meant...
COMMON WISDOM Babies should be put on their backs, especially to sleep...
BOTTOM LINE Babies should sleep on their backs. But put them on their tummies for as much supervised awake time as possible. --By Karen Bouffard
...children old enough to benefit, the second leg of treatment is individual therapy, which includes social-rhythms work--learning to balance meals, sleep, studies and recreation. If a triggering incident such as a divorce or death kicked the condition off, the doctor can help the child process that...
What gets neuroscientists excited is that most of these digestive hormones seem to affect the same group of neurons in the hypothalamus, a subsection of the brain that acts as a kind of master regulator of some of our more basic instincts--hunger, thirst, sleep, sex. That means if PYY fails to be a good candidate for a new antiobesity drug, researchers may find another target in the brain that works better. Alternatively, studying PYY may help with the opposite problem--loss of appetite--which so often affects cancer patients and people with AIDS...