- Ready to stop thinking baby fat is just sooo adorable,
world? Think again after you check out a new study led by researcher Solveig Cunningham
of Emory University in Atlanta. Cunningham and her crew found that 5-year-old
children who carry around extra weight may face four times the risk of being
obese at 14, compared to their normal-weight peers. Nearly half of the children
became obese between the ages of 5 and 14 were overweight in kindergarten and
that might seem like science pointlessly confirming something that was already
blatantly obvious, but anything to remind America how fat it is and how much it
needs to work out and eat better is a brilliant idea. "We wanted to learn
what are the ages of vulnerability and greater risk for new cases of obesity.
We found that new cases of obesity tended to increase early on," Cunningham
said. She and her team also found that socioeconomic status or ethnicity had no
impact on obesity. Children followed for the study were from a range of races
and socioeconomic status, although children from the wealthiest groups tended
to have somewhat lower obesity risks by a negligible margin. Everyone with ears
or eyes should know by now that childhood obesity in the United States is a big
problem, ballooning g from 4.2 percent in 1963-1965 to 15.3 percent in
1999-2000, according to background information in the study. Specifically, the
researchers wanted to determine whether there were times of vulnerability
across a child's life span, or if certain groups had a greater risk. They evaluated
data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which y included more than
7,700 kindergartners from across the United States. Each child’s weight and
height were measured at seven different times until they were in eighth grade.
At the beginning of the study, 12.4 percent of the children were obese and another
14.9 percent were overweight. Those numbers skyrocketed to 20.8 percent and 17 percent,
respectively, by the time the children were in eighth grade. Simply put, the
children who were at high risk already became obese at younger ages and stayed
that way. Put another way, fat is NOT adorable, America……..
- The Tennessee
Titans not a good football team this season. Tight end Delanie Walker believes
he knows why. Walker, one of the many NFL players whose seasons are over but
decided to spend time at the Super Bowl anyhow to promote a product or
organization, said in a radio interview that the team was dragged down by up to
six players who qualified as "cancers" and didn't care that the team
wasn't winning. It was the same message he communicated during the season, when
he said "cancers" in the locker room needed to be identified and
removed. "When we started losing more games, we got to see it more and
more, it was just like it was falling apart," Walker said. "And the
players that were the cancer were dragging other players into that box with
them, and the box was getting bigger and bigger. At first, it was just a small
box. The box just got bigger and bigger.” Walker added that the disruptive
players were evident to the entire team and expressed hope that while the
squad’s 7-9 mark got head coach Mike Munchak fired, he believes new coach Ken
Whisenhunt and his staff will see the lack of effort from those six individuals
on the game film and get rid of them. “They're going to see what type of
players that want to be here and don't want to be here, and he's going to get
rid of them,” Walker said of Whisenhunt. Whether Walker’s assessment is
accurate or not, there is no question that the season went horribly wrong for
the Titans, who started 3-1 but then fell apart, losing eight of their next 10
games, including a home loss to the then-winless Jacksonville Jaguars. They
finished below .500 in one of the NFL’s worst divisions and fired Munchak a
week after the season ended. Calling an athlete a quitter is about the worst
thing you can say about him, but Walker happily piled on by saying that the
unnamed quitters he was calling out likely wouldn’t even mind being cut. "Some
of the guys that was the cancer, they really didn't care," Walker said.
"They'd be happy to get up on out from the organization. You would hear
them talk about it, 'I can't wait to get up on out of here.'” Walker added that
because it was his first year with the team, he didn’t feel it was his job to
confront players. No, calling them out anonymously through the media works just
fine……..
- Rep. Michael
Grimm (R-N.Y.) may have a slight rage issue. That is a common opinion for
people to have of you after you threaten physical violence against a media
member on live television merely because he asked you a question you didn’t
like. Scott threatened to beat down NY1 reporter Michael Scotto when the
reporter brought up an ongoing federal investigation of the congressman's
campaign finances. The incident occurred shortly after President Barack Obama's
State of the Union speech as Grimm was being interviewed inside the Rotunda of the
Cannon House Office Building, part of the Capitol complex. Scotto began to ask
about the investigation, but Grimm was having none of it. "I'm not
speaking about anything that's off topic. This is only about the president,"
Grimm said tersely. He then strode angrily off screen, but as Scotto turned to
the camera to speak to viewers back in New York, Grimm bum rushed the shot and
went off. "Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I'll throw
you off this f-----g balcony," Grimm said. "Why, why, I just wanted
to ask you ...?" Scotto replied. "If you ever do that to me again ...,"
Grimm snarled. When Scotto defended his question, Grimm then pulled the “You’re
not man enough” card and vowed to “break you in half…like a boy.” For some odd
reason, Grimm called Scotto the next day to apologize and issued a written
statement admitting his guilt. “I was wrong," Grimm said in a statement
issued by his office. I shouldn’t have allowed my emotions to get the better of
me and lose my cool.” Best of all, the congressman said he and his new
friend/assault victim in waiting planned to have lunch soon to smooth things
over. Sadly, Scott accepted the apology and this potential ratings bonanza
appears to be over almost before it began………
- Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has rage issues of his own. Reznor
and his band joined Queens Of The Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Fleetwood Mac's
Lindsey Buckingham for the closing slot at the Grammy Awards Sunday night, but
their time on stage shared a dubious commonality with so many awards show
acceptance speeches. In other words, it was cut short by producers who decided
those on stage had run out of time and needed to be curbed. When the
performance was cut short by the closing credits and a commercial break, an
enraged Reznor r took to Twitter to blast the organizers, writing "Music's
biggest night... to be disrespected. A heartfelt F*CK YOU guys." Airing
his grievances on Twitter is kind of Reznor’s thing, as he also lit up Reading
Festival promoters and fellow headliners Biffy Clyro last year, saying those
people had “"f*cked us on production.” Messing with Reznor’s live performances
clearly does not go over well and in a weak attempt to mitigate the damage,
Grammys executive producer Ken Ehrlich served up a lame non-apology apology
that was somehow supposed to make it all better. "I'm sorry he was upset.
I was really thrilled that we were finally getting him on the Grammys,” Erlich
said. “The final jam started with Arcade Fire a few years ago, and LL Cool J
last year. I wanted to end on a high, an up note. I did tell them we'd take it
as long as we could. The number was about five, six minutes long, and we got to
within a minute twenty of the end. We got as close as we could possibly get.”
In other words, we ran out of time, f*cking deal with it, you prima donna
prick. Hopefully other awards shows and festivals continue this trend of
pissing Reznor off because unlike the Incredible Hulk, he is likeable (or at
least amusing) when he’s angry………..
- China’s pollution problem is reaching new lows…or
highs…whichever one is really, really bad. How bad? Bad enough that a key
element of the biggest holiday on the Chinese calendar may be forbidden because
it could exacerbate the problem. With the Chinese New Year looming, the smog that
hangs over so much of the communist nation has state weather forecasters calling for a
ban on fireworks because of heavy smog warnings. The start of the lunar
calendar is typically marked by over-the-top pyrotechnic displays that leave
behind clouds over Chinese cities, but with a nonstop wave of smog expected to
blanket central and eastern parts of the country over the holiday, the China
Meteorological Administration called for local governments to ban them
completely. "Firecrackers and fireworks can release large amounts of toxic
gas and particles such as sulfur dioxide, which will cause severe air pollution
regionally," CMA spokesman Chen Zhenlin said at a news conference.
Operating on the same line of though, the municipal government in the country’s
capital Beijing said it would suspend sales of firecrackers to citizens
and impose a day-long ban on fireworks if air pollution reaches the worst
levels on charts. Pollution measurements reached a dangerous high earlier this
month, registering over 20 times the recommended exposure levels suggested by
the World Health Organization (WHO) and causing residents to wear masks on
their faces and crank their indoor air purifiers to their highest setting. Winter
is the worst time for pollution in the nation with the world’s filthiest air,
as colder temperatures force the cranking up of regional coal-burning power
plants to meet heating demands. Still, ruining the biggest holiday of the year because
of your toxic air is kind of a bummer……..
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