Word: underweight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expectant mothers don't have enough to worry about. Now two studies show a curious link between snoring and high blood pressure. One found that snoring moms-to-be are more than twice as likely to have elevated blood pressure--and three times as likely to give birth to underweight infants. Another shows that when nighttime breathing problems are corrected with a mechanical device, elevated blood-pressure levels fall...
...Being too fat--or too thin--can be a risk for ARTHRITIS. Obese men raise their chances of developing arthritis by 70%; underweight men by 40%. Very thin women face no greater than normal risk, but heavy ones appear 50% more likely to get it. Sources--GOOD NEWS: New England Journal of Medicine; Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; American Diabetes Association BAD NEWS: Pediatrics; UNICEF; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
According to a source familiar with HMC, one area that hurt the endowment's return was that it was "underweight in technology"--an area which saw a return of about 90 percent--meaning the company did not have enough of its assets invested in technology...
...reason is obvious: there is much more pressure on women in western society to be thin, while underweight men are regarded as effeminate. Women's health and beauty magazines consist chiefly of articles aimed at weight reduction, but magazines geared to men focus on physical fitness rather than slenderness. Indeed, this produces its own complications: studies have shown that one to three percent of all college seniors and approximately 85 percent of all football players have taken anabolic steroids to build muscle mass at one time or another...
Most interesting experience tabling for the blood drive:One girl came to me, convinced she was underweight to give blood, although I told her she wasn't. Then she thought she had just had a vaccine, but it had been over three months. I think she wanted to give blood but wanted a good reason to not be able...