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...eating too much and exercising too little, and much of the world is following our bad example. There is no question that excessive weight increases your risk of becoming diabetic. But that explains only part of the problem. Diabetes has a strong genetic component, and scientists are beginning to suspect that certain evolutionary factors, as well as your mother's metabolic or nutritional status during pregnancy, may predispose you to develop diabetes. That may explain why Indians from the subcontinent often become diabetic after gaining just a few pounds and why the consequences of obesity seem far more devastating...
Evolutionary biologists suspect that a predisposition toward diabetes developed among certain ethnic groups--such as Pima Indians or Americans of African descent--as a result of repeated, perhaps even recent, bouts of starvation. Those individuals who were better able to decrease energy expenditures during a famine survived and passed on the trait to their offspring. Unfortunately, that ability seems to cause insulin resistance when food is plentiful. In other words, says Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, director of the Center for Women's Health Research at New York University, "you come out into the world--at least the developed world--and there...
...integrity." Like all Taiwanese, Wong has heard similar strident threats from China before. This time, however, he blames his own President, Chen Shui-bian, for deliberately baiting Beijing by stirring the pot of independence at home in a crude attempt to boost his re-election chances next March. "I suspect all he cares about is staying in power," says Wong, who until recently counted himself among Chen's supporters...
...suspect this is a lie. Nobody is really “that kind of guy.” I like all kinds of music, absolutely, and I would get hopelessly bored if restricted in my listening habits. But there is some part of me that is forever looking out for a really good rock album. Cue Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros...
Pasquarello said no arrests have been made in that case, where the suspect was described as an 18 to 25-year-old light-skinned male with a medium build, not matching the description of the suspect in Tuesday’s assault...