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Controlling weight is also vital. The body tunes and retunes a lot of dials to keep its blood pressure balanced, and obesity twists those knobs in all the wrong ways. For one thing, increased body mass means higher blood volume, straining the circulatory system. Carrying extra weight also causes the heart to overwork--no favor to a left ventricle that may already be enlarged. Additionally, people who are overweight generally don't get that way eating fruits, vegetables and lean meats; their diet tends to be high in salt, fats and processed foods, just the things hypertension feasts...
...Kremlin regards countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus as vital buffers between Russia and the West. Like Russian rulers for the past two centuries, Putin "equates security with well-defined zones of interest," says James Sherr, an Eastern Europe specialist at Oxford Uni-versity. Those zones have shrunk in recent years as the Baltic states and Georgia turned sharply toward the West. Putin doesn't want to see the same thing happen in Ukraine...
...single core narrative," contends L. Michael White, University of Texas at Austin religious historian and author of From Jesus to Christianity. But that may not be the most important point. "What jumps out at close readers," he says, "is Matthew's and Luke's different roads to performing the vital theological task of their age: fitting key themes and symbols from Christianity's parent tradition, Judaism, into an emerging belief in Jesus and also working in ideas familiar to the Roman culture that surrounded them." Thus the Nativity stories provide a fascinating look at how each...
We’re not perfect. We have no qualms about our perpetual sugar high. But our focus on students makes us a true college magazine, filling a vital purpose for Harvardians who are more interested in their peers than in their administrators. While laughing, we publish flashes of journalistic brilliance, in-depth articles that have the potential to make a difference, and introspective personal writing. And let’s face it: Gadfly is hysterical...
...country, Adeang says, is "at rock bottom," and it may be years before it achieves a solid economic footing. In the meantime, the help of friends is vital. Australia's parliamentary secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Bruce Billson, says Nauru's largest neighbor welcomes the budget measures and is optimistic that the Scotty government will abandon the financial recklessness of the past: "There has never been such a sense of shared purpose." An Australian finance team is in Nauru helping to audit its messy dealings, while two Australian Federal Police members have arrived to assist the local force...