Word: spurs
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...orange juice; under the AAP's new guidelines, kids would have to drink at least four glasses a day. Vitamin D is also found in cod liver oil and fatty fish such as salmon or mackerel - not terribly popular with most youngsters. And while the best way to spur vitamin D production in the body is exposure to sunlight - typically about 10 or 15 minutes at a time a few times a week - it's not always the easiest. Some climates have less sunlight than others, and people either don't spend enough time outdoors or wear sunscreen when they...
When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities, reading probably isn't what they have in mind. Yet a new study by obesity researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading - depending on the choice of material - can spur weight loss in tween-age girls...
...America could have mounted," says Ariel Rabkin, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied and written about online security, including a paper subtitled "Security Questions in the Era of Facebook." Rabkin adds, "You could do it in your living room drunk on the spur of the moment...
...estimates of the global HIV burden by about 6 million cases; that agency revised its numbers also based on newer and more accurate surveys. At the time, the U.N. came under fire from critics for inflating its estimates in order to exaggerate the urgency of the epidemic - and to spur bigger donations...
...political lives of both men are predicated on service - Obama as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side and McCain as a naval officer who spent five years as a prisoner of war - and, despite different approaches, both have put forth plans to spur Americans to heed similar calls. McCain's plan includes streamlining federal volunteer programs via a central office in the White House, providing more support for the federal work-study program and allocating federal matching funds for private-sector job-training programs. Obama's proposals include tuition reimbursement for teachers in underserved communities and the creation...