by Rexford Sheild, Athletic Business Intern

As our country’s obesity problem has gained more attention in recent years, many have looked to identify the root of the problem. A recent 20-year study conducted by Stanford University revealed that obesity is not due primarily to over-eating but rather a decline in exercise, which leads to increases in average body mass index (BMI). Categories examined by lead author Uri Ladabaum and his colleagues include: obesity, waistline obesity, physical activity and calorie intake.

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By Steve Matthews and Victoria Stilwell

May 12, 2014 9:01 AM CT

Source: Bloomberg

Ryan Yang could have taken a job in a New Jersey DNA sequencing laboratory after graduating from college last year. Instead, the 23-year-old lives with his family in Queens, New York, still unemployed and searching.

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By Dawn Kopecki  May 8, 2014 11:01 PM CT

Source: Bloomberg

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It was a Friday in the fall of 2004 and Umber Ahmad had been invited to read a poem at the wedding of one of her closest friends. She was planning to catch a 7 p.m. flight from New York to Toronto when a vice president at Morgan Stanley called her in. The client in a big merger deal needed work done over the weekend. A mergers and acquisitions specialist, Ahmad had no choice. She canceled the flight and started revising her analysis of the deal, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its June issue.

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Posted: 10/09/2013 1:27 pm

Source: The Huffington Post

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Breakfast is the only meal endowed with a health merit badge. The benefits of this first course of the day, and the hazards of skipping it, have become accepted truths. Despite thin evidence, by which I do not mean skinny people, many even claim that eating breakfast helps lose weight.

Googling “breakfast benefits” draws 127 million results. Only heretics would question this morning institution.

Well, the heretics may have it right. Mounting evidence indicates that it might not be a good idea to break our fast so quickly every day. Research has shown that our overall health and vulnerability to age-related diseases (cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia and muscle loss) is related to something called Chronic Positive Energy Balance (CPEB).

I know it sounds strange. How could anything with “positive energy” in its name be bad? (more…)

By John Gittelsohn  Apr 28, 2014 4:10 PM CT

Source: Bloomberg

Eric McWhinnie

Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States  4th edition

About The Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization
that works on federal, state, and local tax policy issues. ITEP’s mission is to ensure that elected officials, the
media, and the general public have access to accurate, timely, and straightforward information that allows
them to understand the effects of current and proposed tax policies. ITEP’s work focuses particularly on
issues of tax fairness and sustainability.

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Paul Ausick, Michael B. Sauter, 24/7 Wall St.8:03 a.m. EDT August 3, 2013

Source: USA Today

Ten states accounted for roughly 94% of all onshore U.S. reserves as of the end of 2011, with roughly a third of this in Texas alone — just over 7 billion barrels. In many of these states, the oil industry is a major part of their economies. Based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s data on proved oil reserves by states, these are the most oil-rich states in the country.

These states process the vast majority of the oil refined in the U.S. each year. Of the nation’s 139 operating refineries, 89 are located in these states. The national refinery capacity is roughly 16.7 million barrels per day. Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Louisiana alone have a capacity of more than 10 million barrels per day. (more…)

Forget Phones Or Fast Food, More Drivers Cause Their Own Distractions In Crashes

Source: Forbes

By: Jim Gorzelany

Talk about being your own worst enemy. Becoming “lost in thought” is actually far more dangerous than talking on the phone or texting while behind the wheel, with 62 percent of all distracted driving-related traffic fatalities caused by simple daydreaming. (more…)

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By Jeff Kearns, Steve Matthews and Katherine Peralta  Mar 25, 2014 6:42 AM PT

Source: Bloomberg 

Twelve years after retiring as a telephone repairman, Roger Wood clocks 12 to 15 hours a week at a Lowe’s Cos. hardware store near Glen Allen, Virginia.

“About the same amount I made 30 years ago,” Wood, 69, says of his $12 hourly wage. “I’m worried about my portfolio because of low interest rates, even to the point of considering full-time again.” (more…)

By Natasha Doff and Naomi Christie 

Feb 28, 2014 12:38 PM CT

Source: Bloomberg

As freezing weather drained stockpiles ofpropane to their lowest seasonal level in two decades on the U.S. East Coast this month, shivering New Englanders couldn’t tap abundant supplies sailing out of Texas. They had to look 4,000 miles away to more-expensive heating fuel from Europe. (more…)