Word: weighted
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...preventive measures form one of the cornerstones of the ongoing health-care debate - one of the few points on which nearly all sides can agree. The authors of the new study call for physicians to be reimbursed for heart-disease-prevention measures like working with their patients to develop weight-loss and smoking-cessation plans and to be allowed enough breathing room in their schedules to let them do good cardiac assessments. Schools and workplaces, the paper argues, should also be in on the prevention game. Since both are places where large numbers of people congregate, they are also places...
...today be expected to live with the burden of these crimes committed 60 years ago? It is not that "younger Germans ... are less angst-ridden about their country's history" - we are certainly aware we have a "historical responsibility" - it is that we want to be freed of the weight on our shoulders for which we are not responsible. Katja Grosse-Sommer, GERMERSHEIM, GERMANY...
...Cloud's article misses the point that if you eat the same amount, exercise will make you lose weight. He seems to imply that it is impossible not to eat more. But the same motivation that keeps you exercising keeps you aware of your diet. Jason Anderson, Brussels...
...Having read your article while at the gym, I have to say I felt disheartened. While I enjoy exercise and understand its benefits, I can imagine anyone who finds it tedious and exercises purely for weight loss or maintenance would have found in that article a strong incentive to give up. Who knows what health problems they could have prevented by continuing to exercise? Caitriona McPartlin, Dublin...
...first whistleblower on the ship’s secret cargo, Mikhail Voitenko, a maritime expert and editor of the Russian maritime journal “Sovfracht,” has been fired and induced to flee to Istanbul after various threats. Voitenko’s forced exile only adds weight to his claim...