| Kings Notes: High school buds, Friday foes
Eddy Curry and Justin Williams caught up in the tunnel inside Arco Arena on Friday, reminiscing about their days together and perhaps issuing a friendly challenge for the game at hand. Opponents on this night? Perhaps. They were running mates long before then, though. The Knicks' massive center and the Kings forward grew up together just outside of Chicago in Calumet City, Ill., starting as playmates who lived five minutes from each other and later playing as teammates on the Thornwood High School team. Then for parts of every offseason at the same Chicago facility with Tim Grover, the famed trainer who previously worked with Michel Jordan. .
Beauty backlash: Saying enough to perfection
In the beginning, every little girl is a princess -- beautiful, magical, a picture of bliss. Then, somewhere along the way, a new and unsettling awareness begins to set in: Not every girl is a princess. Levels of beauty may vary. And to them, one's happiness is inexorably linked. So begins the lifelong quest of many women to achieve physical perfection: a flawless face, the sleekest hair, an unassailable, flab-free body. The beauty industry is there to help -- to the tune of $8.2 billion worth of beauty products sold in 2006, according to NPD Group. Ditto the diet industry. Marketdata, an independent research firm, estimates that the total U.S. weight-loss market was worth $55.4 billion last year. We may spend big bucks on looking better, but for some women, the costs go deeper: Insecurity over their appearance can undermine an otherwise happy life.
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The regular high school football season might be over, but we're going to introduce you to a player at Hall High School in Little Rock, and tell you about his unique struggle. His teammates don't even know his real name, they only know him as Heavy or Heavy D. But maybe not for much longer.
His real name is Deddrick McElroy but no body knows that. That's because he's been called the nickname 'Heavy' since he was six.
At football games the cheerleaders have a personalized cheer for him and they make a special sign for him. He stands at just over six feet and he weighs nearly 600 pounds at 16 years old.
He wears a size 3X jersey, but it was too small, so the school's Home Economic teacher tacked some practice jerseys to the bottom of it.
Wearing number 77, Heavy is in charge of tackling for the team.
Obstacles overcome
Renee O'Daniel's lifelong dream of becoming a nurse always seemed eclipsed by obstacles."The option of attending college just simply was never presented to me when I was growing up," said O'Daniel, who graduated from Waxahachie High School in 1982 and immediately went to work at Chaparral Steel, a job she held for seven years.A single mom, working in a steel mill and raising two small children, O'Daniel said the dream seemed all but unreachable. .
Break a bone ... not
OSTEOPOROSIS is a disease people often do not know they have until they break a bone. Bone thinning due to osteoporosis affects millions of people around the world. While 80% of those affected are women, men are also at risk, and the disease can strike at any age. Osteoporosis literally means �porous bones� and it is a condition characterised by calcium-depleted bones that become fragile and weak. Between 2-4% of a person�s skeleton is remodelled every year. This means that calcium and other minerals (magnesium, zinc, copper, boron, manganese) leave the bone in a process called resorption and then must be �remodelled� or replaced. If not prevented or if left untreated, osteoporosis can progress painlessly until a bone breaks. These broken bones, also known as fractures, occur typically in the hip, spine, and wrist. Any bone can be affected, but of special concern are fractures of the hip and spine.
Surgery Shown Online
It's one of the most popular procedures among consumers, so much so that an internet broadcast company is showing a local gastric bypass surgery online tonight. “It shows not just the Harrisburg area, but nationally or internationally really what we've done here," says Dr. Luciano Dimarco. Dr. Dimarco, medical director of bariatric surgery at Pinnacle Health, has performed thousands of gastric bypass surgeries in ten years. This one however, on a 41-year-old woman from Harrisburg will be seen around the globe on OR Live tonight (Wednesday). A word of caution- although there's not much blood, some of the images may be too graphic for the queasy. OR Live, an internet broadcast company chooses leading institutions around the world to highlight different procedures.
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