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Doctors believe that maternal diabetes increases children's obesity risk through what's referred to as metabolic imprinting. The idea is that outside of other genetic and environmental risk factors for obesity, children appear to become metabolically imprinted, or pre-programmed, for obesity by being overfed in the womb - a direct result of the mother's high blood sugar. "As we have more people with diabetes and gestational diabetes during pregnancy I think the importance of additional risk factors for obesity increases," says Hillier. "And if there is an alteration going on to program the child for obesity I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mom's Diabetes, Kid Obesity Linked | 8/28/2007 | See Source »

...unfamiliar with computers, she says she can hardly manage to add up her accounts. "I gave my youth to sport," she told TIME over the phone, in a voice thick with emotion, "but in return, I was thrown out like garbage with no knowledge, no skill and a barren womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Disposable Athletes | 7/17/2007 | See Source »

...named Henry Daniel Moder. Celeb watcher DEFAMER apologizes for the relative lack of media attention leading up to the birth: "We've been so consumed with Angelina Jolie's every orphan-collecting whim that we've allowed ourselves to fall tragically out of touch with the Most Powerful Womb in Hollywood." SCORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 2007 | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...tacked down to a one-liner," he says. "People can move into it in a lot of different ways." So to enter and circulate within the distorted bowl of his Torqued Ellipse IV is to find yourself inside a resolutely abstract geometric volume that is also somehow a womb, a crater, an inlet and a chamber. By its powerful address to both the body and the subconscious, it sets in motion some very deep mental reflexes, including the ones having to do with anguish, awe and desire. Yet at the end, its greatest impact is simply as an abstract form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Serra's Big Show | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...while drinking yourself to finals glory. Congress should pass a law that says this is awesome. Some people have papers due during finals period, and they spend all their time writing those papers—while drunk! Hey Poindexter, why don’t you crawl back in the womb where you won’t have to have any motherfucking fun? To be on the cutting edge of rage, don’t bother drinking before you have a paper to write. Go straight for the good stuff: I write all my papers on opium, and I haven?...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The State School Guide to Reading Period | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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