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Childhood obesity can begin as early as 9 months of age, researchers find

Everyone loves a roly-poly baby. Still, there is such a thing as an overweight infant, and obese babies — even those as young as 9 months — are predisposed to being obese later in life, researchers say in Friday’s issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.
Childhood obesity is a growing public [...]

Brazil’s vice president suffers heart attack, but is in stable condition

Officials say Brazil’s vice president has suffered a heart attack but is in stable condition.
A Sao Paulo hospital says Jose Alencar is resting in its intensive care unit and that immediate surgery is not needed.
Alencar is technically Brazil’s head of state while President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is attending an economic summit [...]

Mexico’s 22 years old Miss Universe

From flags to Facebook, 22-year-old Jimena Navarrete has quickly made it clear what she plans to promote as the world’s newest Miss Universe — her home country of Mexico.
“I want the whole world to know about my country and my people,” the Guadalajara native said after beating 82 competitors for global [...]

Staying sane now the toughest challenge for 33 trapped Chilean miners still months from rescue

Chile’s government reinforced a lifeline Monday to 33 miners trapped deep inside a gold and copper mine, preparing to keep them supplied with food, water, medicine and communications during the four months it may take to carve a tunnel wide enough to pull them out.
A team of doctors and psychiatric experts also [...]

Trapped Chilean miners: ‘We are fine in the shelter’

Rescue workers in Chile are preparing tubes packed with flashlights, food and medicine after learning that 33 miners trapped for nearly three weeks are still alive in an underground shelter.
Officials cautioned that it could take four months to rescue the workers. But family members cheered as Chilean President Sebastian Pinera held [...]

Brazil’s Start-Up Generation

Marcelo Marzola, the 33-year-old co-founder of Predicta.net, is a perfect example of how hot Brazil’s $1.6 trillion economy has become — and why its entrepreneurs are now getting their phone calls returned by venture capitalists after a decade of “You’re from where?”
Marzola was invited to present his company’s free online behavioral-targeting [...]

Flood Recovery Could Push Pakistan to the Edge

The numbers just keep rising. Nearly a month since heavy monsoon rains caused the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history, a fifth of its territory is now enveloped in a sheet of water. The total number of people affected has climbed to 20 million. At the weekend, some 200,000 more people in [...]

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