Obesity leads to a legion of ills, from heart attacks and strokes to gut cancers and diabetes.
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Faced with this litany of ills, Europe's politicians and officials respond in a number of different ways.
More controversial studies purport to link widening income gaps with all manner of ills, from obesity to suicide.
Its fans will tell you that it relieves a variety of ills--from asthma, hay fever and sinus infections to chronic pain, arthritis, inflammation and migraine.
But a renegade group of doctors use it for a far broader range of ills--everything from heart disease to memory impairment--despite scant evidence it works and potentially dangerous side effects.
The white paper will echo the Rogers view that many of the ills of poor areas are due to poor city design.
It was a tactical memo that the owners are trying to get a deal done with the union that will cure some of the ills of the game such as exorbitant rookie salaries.
"The Girls of Destiny Reading and Etiquette Club, " in microcosm, offers a solution to many of the ills which our analysis of the interviews in the "Girls at Risk" project revealed, and meets many of the recommendations which the team subsequently made.
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Like those dealing with serious addiction, one can take a path to detoxification which would rid the body of its ills at the price of a horrible physical experience, or one can keep feeding an addiction, perhaps in moderately reduced doses, in order to avert the pain.
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He was guided by the firm conviction that many of the ills afflicting the church could be traced to a misreading of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
One called "Lenders in the Temple" turns on an apt but also somewhat predictable catalog of modern ills.
Well, for starters, having healthy retirement and savings accounts can cure a lot of future ills.
Importantly, businesses have the ability to alleviate the root causes of social ills (incarceration, addiction, poverty, etc.) by providing employment opportunities.
Long seen by German politicians as the purview of "speculators, " naked swaps have been blamed for many of the ills plaguing Europe's sovereign debt.
Their book caused a stir in Britain by showing, with copious graphs and statistics, that inequality is associated with all manner of social ills.
They claimed that higher levels of inequality were associated with higher murder rates, lower life expectancy, more obesity and all manner of other ills.
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Looking at the built environment not only connects people from many professions to find solutions, but also has the potential to solve a multitude of societal ills.
Apple was often criticized for the closed-mouthed approach about the health status of Steve Jobs when he was suffering through the ravages of pancreatic cancer and a variety of related ills.
In fact, administrative overhead is essential if we are to develop programs that go beyond Band-Aid responses and build the kind of infrastructure and collaborations that address the root causes of social ills.
Apparently, as often happens, no one thought putting up this stuff for the world to see, theoretically, would result in them seeing it, in practice, thus result in a big-paper story that exposes many of the ills the people in town would rather not talk about with outsiders.
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But it is only one of many plausible scenarios in which the economic ills of its members prove fatal for the euro.
Considering the modest claims made by the author of the plan, as well as the sharp questioning of even those claims by many eminent economists, it would require a heavy dose of wishful thinking to regard QE2 as a potent remedy for the ills of the real economy.
Speaking ahead of Sunday's qualifying draw for the 2010 tournament, Blatter said the World Cup could help solve the social ills of the hosts South Africa by acting as a catalyst for development.
The authors offer a number of sensible remedies to such ills, including different ways of boosting investment in public agricultural research and possible reforms at multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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His speech is not a serious attempt to deal with curing the ills of NHS patients.
Much has been written about the ills of our Social Security system as it stands today.
He said the attack was a protest against the ills of the world's political system.
Nothing is more reassuring than hearing them longingly turn you down and bemoan the ills of corporate life.
Chicago schools suffer, in heavy doses, all the ills of urban school districts: poverty, gang activity and teen pregnancies.
Mr Gettelfinger may have concluded that a showdown with GM will do little to solve the ills of his union.
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