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...often exacerbate health problems that the physiological stress response has already caused. High ACE scorers who do not overeat, smoke or take drugs still have high rates of obesity, heart disease, depression and diabetes. The mechanism for these risks appears to lie in the biology of the stress-response system and in the way environment affects a person's genetic activity...
...that environment might have resulted in a particular pattern of gene expression that would have prompted the body to store more fat in preparation for the next bout of scarcity. Today, of course, the same response to stress would result in obesity. This theory of a thrifty fat-storing system that kicks in under high levels of early stress was originally proposed by British physician David Barker. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
...chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, Warren has grilled Treasury officials and sought to defend the middle class while keeping a watchful eye on the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which was created in October 2008 to stave off a potential collapse of the U.S. financial system...
Since stickK was first launched in January 2008, more than $3 million has been put on the line. But the site relies on the honor system, and with a self-reported 70% success rate among users who pledge money, only $116,000 is scheduled to be paid out in 2009. (For various reasons, disbursements to charities are made in lump sums at the end of the year.) Karlan knows there are cheaters among the site's 50,000 users, and Sisson admits that she is one of them. She says she lied in 2008 about achieving her goal of losing...
HealthyWage, which makes money through advertising and sponsorships, claims it can save the health care system $1,150 in obesity-related costs for each person who slims down to a healthy BMI. But the challenge is hardly an easy payout. Sisson, who tips the scales at just over 200 lb., will have to lose 50 lb. in a year and check in with the site about her food intake and physical activity every week. She also has to get her physician to call HealthyWage to verify her weight at the beginning and end of the challenge...