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...begin worrying that their children were growing abnormally. “I’d recommend that mothers not necessarily worry,” she said. “These are questions for the pediatrician to determine.” The main implication of this study is that rapid weight gains early in life are significant and are associated with later obesity, according to Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, a research associate at Harvard Medical School and one of the article’s authors. “[Early life] might be a critical period that health professionals and researchers should...
...Both Breaux and Priour said the awareness of playing a gay character soon faded into the larger challenges of their roles. Priour had to wrestle with the emotional weight of playing a man with AIDS who’s been deserted by his lover. Breaux had to negotiate a deeply flawed relationship with the wife his character deserts...
Independent experts, however, caution against such nationalistic one-upmanship. Already one-quarter of hospital beds are taken up by people suffering from weight-related ailments such as heart attacks, back surgeries and hip and joint replacements, says Luiz Vicente Berti, president of the Brazilian Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Unless preventive action is taken to educate people, he warns, Brazil faces a sick and expensive future. "If we don't teach people how to eat properly and exercise, then in 10 years no one will have the money to pay the hospital bills that will arise," Berti says, adding...
...Brazil's Health Ministry. Meanwhile, almost half (47.3%) of adult males and 39.5% of females are considered overweight. Those figures are still low compared with industrialized nations like the U.S., where more than a third of all adults are considered obese (a condition defined by the ratio of weight to height). But Malta says the trend is clear and that Brazil is slowly on the same path. In 1975, similar studies showed that only 2.8% of men and 7.8% of women were obese; just seven years ago, the numbers were 8.8% and 12.7%. (See pictures of what makes...
...solely by race,” he said. “I haven’t heard any members say that they’re voting because of someone’s race.” But some residents said they felt the school committee did not give sufficient weight to Turk’s Cambridge roots. “Lifelong service to this city doesn’t mean a damn thing because they’ll screw you,” said Charles L. Stead, Sr., a former principal in the district. “Understand that...