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...month intervention, all the girls who read books had lost weight, but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight and height used to measure obesity, by .71, compared with .33 in the Charlotte group an average .05 increase among the nonreaders...
...There was some effect of the book in augmenting what we were doing in the clinic," she says. "And not only did it have a small but significant effect on BMI, but it also had a positive effect on the girls' self-esteem...
Although the amount of weight lost was small, researchers say its effect is important and cumulative. Healthy nine-to-13-year-old girls typically have a BMI between 16 and 19; the BMI of the girls in the study group was on average between 27 and 28. "If you start with a preteen with a BMI of 27, and if she continues to increase her BMI at her current rate, in six months she would probably be at 28," says Armstrong. "But instead of going from 27 to 28, she now goes from 27 to 26.3, which would...
...number of caffeinated drinks consumed in one day 2) Number of objectionable pictures you have un-tagged on Facebook 3) Number of times you said you hated reality TV but watched it anyway 4) Number of Facebook friends 5) Number of Pokemon cards collected in your childhood 6) Your BMI (the lower the better) 7) Your fastest mile time 8) Number of licks it takes you to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop 9) Consecutive days spent on World of Warcraft 10) Number of Miley Cyrus songs on your iPod 11) Your record highest score...
...areas where it's not feasible to extend fiber cables - sparsely populated rural regions, say - O3b's satellite network will shift information around wirelessly, closing the digital divide still further. "Perhaps half of the entire African population does not live in major cities," says Brian Neilson, research director at BMI-TechKnowledge, a South Africa-based telecom consultancy, who adds that for O3b, "there is a clear gap-closing opportunity...