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...that hangs over belt buckles and swings from the backs of arms), and a series of papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm for the first time that healthy adults have stores of this adipose tissue, which researchers hope to study further as a potential new weight-loss treatment...
...second study, Lumeng found a similar association between the inability to delay gratification in 4-year-olds (again with favorite foods) and weight gain by age 11. Of the 805 children in the study, 47% had trouble with self-restraint; those kids were 30% more likely to be overweight seven years later, compared with other children in the study. The findings indicate that learning self-control may be an important way for children to manage their weight - a logical theory, familiar to anyone who has struggled with self-discipline and impulse regulation to keep from packing on the pounds...
...Francis found that the children who scored lower on both tasks were 30% heavier by the time they were 12, compared with kids who were better able to control their impulses. Not only did low-scoring kids gain more weight, but they also gained it faster, showing the most rapid increases in BMI over the nine years of the study's follow-up. (Read TIME's 2008 cover story "Our Super-Sized Kids...
...Brown, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Austin, Texas. "But it's harder to do, the older you get. As pediatricians, we have the chance to help parents create a lifestyle early on, so you don't have to go through behavior modification or a weight loss program to learn healthier eating habits. I think this information is most important for new parents with infants...
...Kiss my fat ass.' MEGHAN MCCAIN, responding on The View to Ingraham's comments about her weight. Ingraham later fired back, "Can I say 'Lighten up,' or is that offensive...