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...standards - where some nine million children are overweight - the children included in the Danish paper would have barely made the cutoff for "overweight." Merely being chubby it seems - let alone obese - can be a serious health risk. "Our study shows that even a few excess pounds or kilograms of weight can damage future health," Baker says...
Baker did not have access to her subjects' adult weights, so she could not confirm whether their heart-disease risk was influenced by adult obesity, but her study did show that those risks weren't nearly as high in kids who started out heavy at age 7, but lost the weight by 13. "If we could intervene in that period to help these children attain and maintain an appropriate weight for their age, we really could significantly reduce the risk of heart disease in the future," says Baker...
...bulbs can save up to 2,000 times their weight in greenhouse gases...
...think you've reached the peak of your career? -Luke Montgomery Brisbane, AustraliaI hope not. And I don't even know if this will be my career in 10 years. I might become a fighter. A heavyweight. All I've made is the weight...
...season several years ago, Kargère pushed for the celebration of Festivus, the Seinfeld-inspired multi-cultural celebratory event that uses an aluminum pole in the place of a Christmas tree. The House also transformed a largely unused underground space into “one of the nicest weight rooms” in the House system, he said. Luciana Herman, an expository writing preceptor and a resident tutor in Quincy House, has been tapped to serve as the acting resident dean, according to Harris. A search will be conducted to find a permanent replacement for Karg?...