And that, in turn, reminded me of a documentary I had seen as a child about this disease, progeria, which is a very sad disease that afflicts kids.
Am I the only one who still remembers that "less is more" and who is concerned about the depression that will afflict our kids when their rising expectations are impossible to meet? Dennis Speer Santa Cruz, Calif., April 20 , 2006
But not at the ages that we see it; you didn't see kids developing high blood pressure early on, and you didn't see kids afflicted with obesity and diabetes.
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Poor and minority kids are more heavily afflicted.
She began experimenting with electronic loops at the same time as she discovered that she could sing, and by sing we mean exhale seductively rather than bellow or blare: Kid A is not afflicted by passion.
On CNN, James DuPont, the father of an afflicted girl, said, "A lot of these kids were just, you know, having a happy, normal life".
Or the deaf Beethoven, or the blind Goya; or, to shift to another realm, Mike Tyson, bullied as a kid, or Mark Spitz and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, champion athletes afflicted with asthma.
Today, one in three adults is considered clinically obese, along with one in five kids, and 24 million Americans are afflicted by type 2 diabetes, often caused by poor diet, with another 79 million people having pre-diabetes.
As he called out letters to identify the afflicted teeth, their teachers filled out forms for the kids to bring to their parents.
