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...asked the 21 members of the team to cancel their accounts during the first week of preseason training. The policy comes on the heels of the suspension last May of the Northwestern University’s women’s soccer team after photos of the team that included alcohol, partial nudity, and sexual acts circulated online. Last season, while serving as an assistant coach at Florida State University, Walsh said her senior co-captain sat out the first game of the season against the top-ranked team in the country after incriminating photographs of the athlete appeared on Facebook.com...
...Korea. The life expectancy gap has been increasing since 1984. According to the study, disparities in life expectancy are caused not by commonly-blamed factors such as poverty, infant mortality, violence, HIV/AIDS, and lack of health insurance, but rather by chronic noncommunicable diseases. Five factors are most deadly: tobacco, alcohol, obesity, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol. Disparities in death-rates primarily affect young and middle-age adults. The researchers recommended that public-health efforts target these age groups. In life expectancy, as in real estate, what matters is location, location, location. In a telephone interview with The Crimson, Ezzati...
...sent shock waves through the international medical community. A research group led by Katherine Flegal, a senior epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analyzed data from several large U.S. health studies conducted between 1976 and 2000, controlling for factors such as smoking, age, race and alcohol consumption. They found that while obesity caused about 112,000 deaths a year, being overweight prevented about 86,000 deaths annually. Based on those figures, the net U.S. death toll attributable to excess weight is 26,000 a year (about one-twelfth the figure that many obesity experts had been...
ARRESTED. Paris Hilton, 25, celebrity by declaration; for driving under the influence of alcohol; after police observed her steering her Mercedes-Benz "erratically" as she was returning from a charity event; in Hollywood. Having spent the day shooting a video for her new album, Hilton explained, she may have been "speeding a little bit" because "I was just really hungry and I wanted to have an In-N-Out burger...
...Hair of the Dog Alcohol-related illnesses can be difficult to treat and even harder to detect