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Word: underweight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parent rolling over and smothering a small child. (We've ordered a bassinet that attaches to the bed.) The A.A.P. suggests feeding babies only breast milk for the first six months and including it in the diet for another six after that. (A formula supplement is still recommended for underweight babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Baby Bulletins | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...startling report in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that expectant moms who get dental X rays may be at risk for having underweight babies. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle found that among the women they studied, those who had babies weighing less than 51/2 lbs. were twice as likely to have had dental X rays. Researchers were quick to say they didn't know how radiation might affect pregnancy or whether the babies' low birth weight was due to X-ray exposure alone. Whatever the risk, say the study's authors, it's small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A To Z | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...mentally alert and socially engaged. "She's really interested in what's going on in the world and listens to the news on the radio most days," Beijering says. Longevity didn't seem to be in the cards when Van Andel-Schipper was young, though. She was sickly and underweight as a child, and her parents were so concerned about her health that they kept her out of school; her father, the headmaster of the local primary school, taught her at home. Despite the shaky start, Van Andel-Schipper has enjoyed robust health ever since. She even sailed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Oldest Person | 10/31/2004 | See Source »

...general, a difficult weekend because it was pretty breezy, and we were sailing underweight,” Devlin said “We didn’t have as much weight in the boat, so we had problems keeping it flat...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stiff Winds, Stiff Competition | 10/19/2004 | See Source »

...that in the late 1990s, adults in the U.S. felt "sad, blue or depressed" an average of three days a month. Women and young adults were more prone to funks than men or seniors. Down days were associated with bad habits (smoking, physical inactivity) and tough circumstances (poverty, unemployment). Underweight subjects, however, had almost twice as many blue days as those who were overweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Who's Feeling Low Down? | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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