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ACROSS
1 “Dragnet” star
Jack
5 Campus military
prog.
9 Die-hard
13 Gillette razor
14 Bridal path flower
piece
15 Hindu princess
16 Apply crudely, as
paint
17 Samuel on the
Supreme Court
18 To be, to Tiberius
19 “Fiddler on the
Roof” song
22 “What a relief!”
24 Continental trade
gp.
25 Ritzy residence
26 Corned beef-and-
Swiss sandwich
28 Quantities: Abbr.
30 ’60s hallucinogen
31 Like businesses
specializing in
international
trade
34 Second in
command: Abbr.
35 Golfer’s concern
36 Convenience
40 Beatles hit that
begins, “You say
yes, I say no”
45 Sci-fi saucer
48 Bears or Cubs
49 At the back of the
pack
50 Poe’s “The
Murders in the
Rue __”
52 ATM access
code
53 __ Moines
54 Like some
government
partnerships
58 Hipbone parts
59 “__-ho!”
60 European capital
west of Helsinki
63 No longer
working: Abbr.
64 Forgetting to
carry the one,
say
65 In the sack
66 Scots Gaelic
67 Sheep fat
68 Unit of force
DOWN
1 Fistful of bills
2 Approx. landing
hour
3 Quick reviews, as
before a test
4 Hindu title of
respect
5 Archaeologist’s
find
6 Big name in
elevators
7 London gallery
8 In the vicinity of
9 “__ you clever!”
10 Feudal servant
11 Enlarged map
segments
12 Cut down on
calories
14 PepsiCo, to
Quaker Oats, e.g.
20 __-do-well
21 SALT I
participant
22 Opera solo
23 Garment edges
27 This and that
28 Geometric given
29 Video file format
32 Jazzy Fitzgerald
33 Kennedy and
Turner
37 Obeys, as rules
38 “Auld Lang __”
39 Brain scans,
briefly
41 Small needle
case
42 Freeloaders
43 Twist who asked
for some more
44 Chaplin of “Game
of Thrones”
45 Judge at home
46 More unpleasant
47 Planetary paths
51 Air freshener
brand
52 Turn on one foot
55 Ecuador
neighbor
56 In very short
supply
57 Creek croaker
61 “Dancing With
the Stars” judge
Goodman
62 Keats’ “To
Autumn,” e.g.
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HEALTH
Preference for
sweets can predict
childhood obesity
By MAYA SHANKAR
Daily Staff Reporter
New
University
research
shows a childhood preference
for sweet foods may be a
predictor of unhealthy weight
gain.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
over
one-sixth
of
children
and adolescents were obese in
2012, which translates to about
12.7 million individuals. Over
the past 30 years, childhood
obesity has more than doubled
in children and quadrupled in
adolescents.
Childhood obesity is also
correlated to adult obesity.
Obesity increases the risk of
developing
many
different
health
problems
including
cardiovascular
disease,
diabetes and many types of
cancer.
Julie Lumeng, an associate
professor
of
pediatrics
at
the University, and her team
recently published a study in
Pediatrics
medical
journal
describing
the
correlation
between
childhood
eating
habits and weight gain.
Lumeng
said
childhood
obesity
is
a
major
public
health issue, but it is not
well-addressed. According to
Lumeng, the current methods
to curb the problem — which
primarily focus on emphasizing
healthy eating and exercise —
are not effective.
“Childhood
obesity
is
a
significant
public
health
problem, but there are few
people to study it specifically in
relation to children’s behaviors
at very young ages,” Lumeng
said.
“The
strategies
for
obesity prevention that we use
right now are not particularly
effective. We need to find
new ways to intervene, and
this might be a novel point for
intervention.”
The team asked mothers to
feed their toddlers of ages from
birth to two years a typical
lunch and then offer their
children a plate of sweet and
salty treats. The team observed
that
children
who
were
offered sweet treats preferred
increasingly
sweeter
food
as they grew older and were
more likely to be overweight.
This correlation was not seen
for children who elected salty
snacks.
Their findings suggest some
people may be more prone to
obesity than others and that
food preferences from very
young age can determine the
likelihood of obesity later in
life.
“The findings suggest that
children just have different
predispositions
to
certain
eating
behaviors,”
Lumeng
said. “Parents may need to be
particularly
vigilant
about
limiting children’s access to
sweets when their children
have a particular love for
sweets.”
Lumeng said the results of
the study may act as a key step
in
understanding
childhood
obesity.
“There
could
be
many
biological factors contributing
to children’s food preferences,”
Lumeng said. “It’s important
to actively notice what foods
children chose because it could
be a key predictor in unhealthy
weight gain as they grow
older.”
The entire study took five
years to complete. Lumeng
and her team hope to follow
the children in her study into
adulthood to see if their eating
behaviors in early childhood
could predict future obesity.
Research shows
children’s sweet
tooth correlates
with later obesity