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Does this obesity theory make me look fat? |
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 08:54 |
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SANDER L.GILMAN
2009/10/07
WE are, supposedly, in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Everyone is getting fatter. Children are fatter than their parents. Epidemics caused by fat are now manifest: Type 2 diabetes, increased rates of heart and cardiovascular disease, and notably, more cancers, such as breast cancer. This "globesity" epidemic is seen in poor countries as well as in wealthy ones.
But are people really so unhealthily fat? Certainly there are morbidly obese people, whose weight puts their lives at risk. Consider the British jailer Daniel Lambert (1770-1809), who stood 1.55m tall and weighed 335kg, yet neither drank nor ate "more than one dish at a meal". At his death, Lambert was remembered as a man of great "temperance". In other words, he was deemed to be healthy and happy. |
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Life better last year than in 2007 |
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Written by 3K Admin
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 08:45 |
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2009/10/07 By Suganthi Suparmaniam KUALA LUMPUR: Life in Malaysia was better last year compared with 2007, according to United Nations' statistics. The country had a 0.829 rating out of a maximum possible score of 1 last year, marginally higher than the 0.805 it scored the previous year. |
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Climate change talks kick off with clock ticking |
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Written by 3K Admin
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:55 |
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. ASEAN
BANGKOK: United Nations climate change talks kicked off in the Thai capital yesterday with reminders that time is quickly running out for finalising a new “climate deal” in Copenhagen in December. “Time is not pressing, it has almost run out,” said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. Some 4,000 participants and observers have gathered in Bangkok to attend two weeks of meetings aimed at finalising the negotiating text for the next climate deal to be considered at the coming world climate summit in Copenhagen. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:56 |
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Public transport still unpopular |
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Written by 3K Admin
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 13:17 |
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Tuesday October 6, 2009 
KUALA LUMPUR: The Transport Minister wants more Klang Valley folk to use public transport but recognises that services first need to be improved.
Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat said he was willing to hear the concerns of consumers as well as players in the public transportation sector.
Currently, only 16% of the Klang Valley’s population uses public transport and the Government would like to increase this figure to 25%. |
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Written by 3K Admin
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 16:49 |
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
DESPITE a sluggish economy, Malaysian radio stations continued to draw strong advertising support. The latest Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) study conducted by the Nielsen Company found radio registered the highest year-on-year growth at 9.2 per cent in advertising sales for a total market share of 5.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Free-to-air television, the only other medium to register a growth, increased its advertising revenue by 3.7 per cent. |
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