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Shots - Health News
When exercise and diet aren't enough, some parents consider stomach-reduction surgery for obese teens.
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Bariatric Surgery Helps Teens With Severe Obesity Reduce Heart Disease Risk

Jan 07, 2018
Adolescents with severe obesity who had bariatric surgery showed significant improvements in cardiovascular disease risk factors such as elevated blood pressure and high cholesterol.
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A new study finds that being overweight may decrease a person's life span.
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Carrying Some Extra Pounds May Not Be Good After All

Apr 03, 2017
A new study finds that people who are overweight, but not obese, have shorter life spans. It's the opposite of a 2013 study that got a lot of attention by finding a few pounds might be good for you.
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'American Dreams' In Las Vegas Will Answer One Big Question

Mar 30, 2017

Two days later this month might just answer this question: Is Las Vegas ready?

Not for professional football. Or the NHL.

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Calipers can give a more accurate measure of an individual's body fat, but for population-based studies, the BMI is the way to go.
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Does Putting On A Few Pounds Help You Cheat Death?

May 10, 2016
We're told that it's important to keep body mass index below 25. But a study finds that for the lowest risk of death, the magic number has inched up to 27 — in the "overweight" category.
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Sylvester Williams, a Denver Broncos nose guard, nabs Isaiah Crowell of the Cleveland Browns last October. If measured by BMI, Williams is obese.
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If BMI Is The Test Of Health, Many Pro Athletes Would Flunk

Feb 04, 2016
Proposed federal rules would let employers penalize overweight or obese workers by making them pay more for health insurance. But having a high BMI doesn't mean you're not healthy.
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Lit up

Sep 24, 2015

New Black Mountain Institute Executive Director Joshua Wolf Shenk plots the future of the literary center.

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A Pedestrian walks past a Nolita advertisement during Spring/Summer fashion week on Sept. 26, 2007 in Milan, Italy. Isabelle Caro, 27, was photographed for Flash & Partners' Italian clothing company's label Nolita. The company said they are running a cam
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France Considers A Ban On Overly Skinny Models

Mar 18, 2015
Proposed legislation would criminalize the use of underweight models and ban online sites that glorify anorexia and other eating disorders.
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Lebanese Writer Elias Khoury

Apr 23, 2012
Elias Khoury is a Lebanese novelist, playwright, and journalist.  He edited the Al-Mulhaq, which became known as the "tribune of opposition" paper in Beirut, and he's often outspoken about Middle East political issues, like helping to establish the Democratic Left Movement.
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Kelle Groom: A Memoir on Alcoholism and Losing Her Son

Apr 06, 2012
Kelle Groom was a teenager when she gave up her son to be raised by her aunt and uncle.  She soon downspiraled into alcohol and drugs.
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Kris Saknussemm: An Expatriate Rediscovers America

Mar 07, 2012
Kris Saknussemm fled America in his 20s, thanks to a "youth of crime and drugs," and a rift with his parents.  He spent the next 20-plus years in Australia and the Pacific Islands.
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Author Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Feb 24, 2012
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum writes stories that border on the supernatural.  Her novel, Madeline is Sleeping, focused on a little girl shifting between the dream world and reality.
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Blake Butler

Feb 09, 2012
Blake Butler has been compared with Herman Melville and William Faulkner. His novels are disjointed and fragmentary and weird things often happen as he defies the conventions of traditional story-telling.
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Reza Aslan on God and Islam

Oct 14, 2011
Reza Aslan fled Iran when he was 7 years old.  Thirty years later, Aslan has become an outspoken expert on the Middle East and religion.
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Poet C.D. Wright

Apr 21, 2011
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Ishmael Reed on Jazz, Obama, and Today's African-American

Mar 23, 2011
Ishmael Reed is one of the most prolific African-American poets and essayists to date, known for stirring controversy when it comes to politics and black culture.  He says he "holds up the mirror to hypocrisy.
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Talking Jazz with Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

Mar 17, 2011
Ellis Marsalis, Jr., grew up in New Orleans when Dixieland music was everywhere.
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Memoir Writing

Mar 04, 2011
Writing a memoir can be a raw, very personal process. What does it take to crack open your own life and examine your own family tree? Does everyone have a story to tell? And can anyone learn how to write a memoir? We talk to both a memoirist and an instructor who teaches people to write memoirs.
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Richard Burgin on the Art of Fiction

Nov 16, 2010
"There is no voice in American literature today like Richard Burgin." That's what Bloomsbury Press wrote about author Richard Burgin.
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Brian Turner, War Poet

Oct 19, 2010
"Tomorrow begins with shrapnel and blood...." That's the line Brian Turner wrote - about death he saw firsthand.

Brian Turner was a soldier in Iraq when he started writing poetry. He described the rush of bullets, the desert nights in Iraq, and what it's like to see a comrade fall in battle. His first book of poetry, Here, Bullet, skyrocketed him into the limelight - at the same time, he struggled to adjust with his return to America. Brian Turner reflects on the painful beauty of Iraq, and how one finds grace in a time of war. Join us for an in-depth look at the battleground through a soldier-poet's eyes.
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Peter Hessler, an American Writer on China

Oct 07, 2010
When Peter Hessler joined the Peace Corps and taught English in China, he didn't realize those two years would turn into a lifetime of writing about China and its people. But that's what happened.
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Author Vu Tran

May 03, 2010
Cop drives into Vegas, hunting down his ex-wife, who's now married to a Vietnamese crime boss. New movie? Nope - it's the plot for Vu Tran's novel. The UNLV writing fellow talks about his latest projects - and what it's like being a Vietnamese immigrant in Vegas.
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Judith Nies: Working Girl in the 60s

Apr 19, 2010
During the 1960s, Judith Nies was a speech writer building her career on Capitol Hill. Then one day, her husband slapped an FBI file on the table.
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Yiyun Li

Apr 08, 2010
Police bundle a 28 year old woman into a van as the crowd shouts and jeers. She's a political prisoner, and they're driving her to her execution.
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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author Junot Diaz

Apr 07, 2010
Junot Diaz burst onto the literary scene when he was 28, a young Dominican who wrote about growing up poor and fatherless in New Jersey. But when it came time to write a novel, he got stuck on page 75.
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Poet Pablo Medina

Apr 07, 2010
Pablo Medina left Cuba when he was 12, but he still remembers Havana and the salty breeze off the ocean. He lives in New York now.
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