Word: weighted
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...that China is working hard to present itself as a benevolent power on the world stage, why do we ignore the cost of its goals [June 30]? When did it become acceptable for a 14-year-old girl to be taken from her home and forced to become a weight lifter? When did we start to treat such actions as nothing more than growing pains? America didn't become the world's athletic powerhouse by placing athletes in servitude. It didn't search rural Alabama for Jesse Owens, take him from his home and tell him to teach Hitler...
...repulsive." No wonder parents are reluctant to accept that their child may be obese. The negative connotations of our terminology for overweight and obesity undermine efforts to help parents grapple with the implications of obesity for their children. My steadygrow program (www.steadygrow.com) offers an alternative, inclusive terminology based on weight zones A0 to A3+, the goal being A1. Wider use of this terminology will revolutionize our ability to communicate healthy weight messages to parents and children. Dr. Felicity Breen, Havelock, New Zealand...
...that hypertension is a particularly good condition to treat with home-based strategies, say both Jones and Green. Like weight-loss support groups and exercise programs, pharmacist-assisted self-monitoring keeps patients motivated and compliant with their treatment - and, in some cases, may prevent the disease from becoming serious enough to require pharmaceutical treatment. Most physicians also acknowledge that more frequent monitoring is likely more accurate: doctors take only one or two blood pressure measurements a year, when patients come into the office, but those readings can be influenced by a patient's stress or tenseness in the doctor...
...mainly shown that very high doses of alcohol given to adolescent rats (those roughly 40 days old) affect those animals differently from the way alcohol affects adult rats. In typical studies, the rats are injected with 5 g of alcohol per 1,000 g of their body weight, often after the rodents have been deprived of food for 12 hours. Rats metabolize alcohol about 10 times as fast as humans, but in a typical rat, this 5 g/kg dose on an empty stomach still results in a monumentally high blood-alcohol concentration. "It's difficult to compare to humans...
Actress KayCee Stroh, a by no means slender star of Disney's hit High School Musical, knows all about that. After gaining nearly 50 lb. following knee surgery, she could not lose the weight with exercise alone. So she turned to a longtime love, dancing. "Riding the elliptical just couldn't motivate me enough," she says. "Dancing was a way to trick myself into being active." Shortly after, Stroh answered a casting call for High School Musical, scoring her part over dozens of other actors. "I am not a size 2, never will be," she says. "I can just...