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...Amid constant warnings about soaring rates of diabetes and links between fat and heart attack, stroke, dementia, cancer, arthritis and a myriad of other conditions, a view is taking hold that obesity will reverse the millennium-long trend of rising human life expectancy-that today's children will die younger than their parents. In Australia and New Zealand, various groups are pushing for numerous anti-fat measures, including taxing high-kilojoule foods, restricting junk-food advertising and cranking up the frequency and intensity of physical education classes in schools...
...risks of rising BMI, Whiteman says: "A few extra pounds is probably not going to hurt people and may even be advantageous to long-term survival. The problem is that most Australians carry considerably more that just a few extra pounds. In addition, people are getting fatter at younger ages. We don't yet know what the long-term consequences of childhood obesity are, but I would suggest that this is an undesirable trend from a health perspective...
Over the past 20 years we have fallen into an image of being too much on the heritage side of things. The world is younger minded now, especially in the U.S., and this car is designed to appeal to people who want something a bit more modern and fresh aesthetically...
...just one example, for a 10-year-old baseball pitcher to need a tendon transplant for an ailing elbow--an operation that used to be restricted almost entirely to major league baseball players. And orthopedic surgeons report they are under increasing pressure to offer ever more experimental surgery for younger athletes...
...trying to prevent injuries by limiting pitchers to six innings a game--which could result in anywhere from 54 to more than 100 pitches per outing--Little League officials will focus instead on the total number of pitches per game, depending on the pitcher's age. Pitchers 10 and younger will stop after 75 pitches, and those 11 to 12 years of age are limited to 85 pitches a game. The move, designed to minimize the chances of seriously injuring a pitcher's elbow or shoulder, was based on research conducted by the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) of Birmingham...