Word: healthiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody loves a chubby baby-but is a chubby baby necessarily the healthiest and destined to live longest? Probably not, and especially if the chubbiness persists through adolescence, suggests Antioch College's Anthropologist Stanley M. Garn in a study for the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. In fact, the increase of overeating and obesity in childhood leads Garn to ask: "Are we eating our way to the cemetery beginning in the perambulator...
...themselves. Says Dr. Francis S. Chase, dean of the University of Chicago graduate school of education: "Education reporting is 100% better today than it was even five years ago. One of the important differences is that the papers tend to assign good people to education stories now." Perhaps the healthiest sign of progress is that the newspapers recognize the need for even more improvement in the field...