Word: underweight
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...reason is obvious: there is much more pressure on women in western society to be thin, while underweight men are regarded as effeminate. Women's health and beauty magazines consist chiefly of articles aimed at weight reduction, but magazines geared to men focus on physical fitness rather than slenderness. Indeed, this produces its own complications: studies have shown that one to three percent of all college seniors and approximately 85 percent of all football players have taken anabolic steroids to build muscle mass at one time or another...
Most interesting experience tabling for the blood drive:One girl came to me, convinced she was underweight to give blood, although I told her she wasn't. Then she thought she had just had a vaccine, but it had been over three months. I think she wanted to give blood but wanted a good reason to not be able...
...TRAGIC FACT OF LIFE IN THE U.S. IS THAT BLACK children under the age of one die at twice the rate of white infants. Much of the disparity in mortality can be traced to the large number of African-American babies who are born underweight, particularly those weighing less than 1,500 grams, or 3.3 lbs. As one might expect, figuring out why this occurs requires a closer look at maternal health. According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, very nearly all the excess mortality is directly related to four common pregnancy problems. Infection or rupture...
...rate of white infants even when both parents had completed college. Based on U.S. birth and infant death certificates that were filed from 1983 to 1985, a determination was made by Schoendorf and his colleagues that the gap was due entirely to the fact that more black infants were underweight at birth...
...attention, however briefly, to those to whom the earth will soon belong, what kind of leadership can the United States offer? Americans cherish the notion that they cherish their children, but there's woeful evidence to the contrary. Each year thousands of American babies are born premature and underweight, in a country torn by neither war nor famine. The U.S. is one of only four countries -- with Iran, Iraq and Bangladesh -- that still execute juvenile offenders. And nearly 1 in 4 American children under age six lives in poverty. Congressmen wrestling with budget cuts, policymakers musing about peace dividends, voters...