Article: Saturdays can be our waistlines' worst enemies

Article: Weekends slow weight loss, researchers find.
NewsRx Health & Science;  July 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ......because they eat more on weekends than during the week...also happens on most weekends. We thought weekends would present a problem...But rats don't have weekends the way people do, Racette says. On weekends, human lifestyle patterns...concession stands for food. Study ...

Article: When Time is Not on Their Side, Parents Make Weekends Work
The Washington Post;  February 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......scheduler for IBM, has a radical concept of weekends -- at least, it's a radical idea in the busy Washington suburbs. In her household, weekends are for rest, relaxation and family time...parents say that they have to jam their weekends with children's activities and chores...

Article: HIGHER MORTALITY RATE FOUND ON WEEKENDS IN STUDY OF HOSPITALS CANADA RESEARCH CITES STAFFING, EXPERIENCE
The Boston Globe;  August 30, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Patients who enter hospitals on weekends are more likely to die from a variety...artery died 42 percent of the time on weekends, as opposed to 36 percent on weekdays...prepared to deal with some emergencies on weekends, according to the researchers, who said...

Article: Indiana University Professors Focus on Daily Lives of People With Serious Mental Health Conditions; Study Participants Surprisingly Inactive.
AScribe Health News Service;  October 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Department of Kinesiology, recruited study participants from community mental health programs...Serbia. McCormick and Frey asked study participants to wear motion sensors to record...person's recall. Among the findings: The study participants were surprisingly inactive. Inactivity...

Article: The Lost Weekends
The Washington Post;  August 11, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Weekend we live a fiction. We pretend that all weekends are good. We are the Bible of good weekends. Just riffle through our pages and be on...chirp. But we know that isn't true. Some weekends are not good. Some weekends are very, very...

Article: Weekends.com Exceeds $1.5 Million in First Round of Financing; Internet Travel Site With Only Five Employees Exceeds $1.5mm in Financing.
PR Newswire;  November 1, 2000 ;     307 words ...STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Weekends.com (http://www.weekends.com), a leading Internet travel company specializing...and a number of Chicago and Pennsylvania angels. Weekends.com, which only employs 5 people, will use the...

Article: Weekends.com Re-Launches Under New Ownership And Undercuts Major Online Agency Prices.
PR Newswire;  September 5, 2000 ;     336 words ......COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Weekends.com, Inc. the weekend solution company...announced the re-launch of its website, www.weekends.com. The new website offers bargain flights...quickly on the heels of the acquisition of weekends.com by its new parent company BeastoftheEast...

Article: Weekends become more hectic, less relaxing
Daily Breeze;  May 24, 2005 ;     236 words ......making it near the garden. Not even on weekends. Life magazine has just put out The Great...measuring how Americans spend their weekends and what they expect to get out of them...percent of Americans spend more time on weekends doing things they have to do rather than...

Article: Americans' Weekends Focus on Family, Food and Sex.
PR Newswire;  May 17, 2005 ;     667 words ......plan, spend and want to get out of their weekends. The study was conducted by phone with...to do vs. what they want to do on the weekends. * Close to half of Americans (46) bring...Procrastinators Many Americans plan their weekends at the last minute. * 47 of Americans...

Article: Hospital death rates higher on weekends Those admitted during week find better staffing
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 30, 2001 ;     486 words ......death, mortality rates for patients admitted on weekends were higher than rates for patients admitted...conditions in which death rates were lower on the weekends. Researchers defined weekends as the period from midnight Friday to midnight...

Article: Stay well on weekends
Jerusalem Post;  June 2, 2002 ;     412 words ...00-00-0000 Headline: Stay well on weekends Byline: JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Edition...emergency room is significantly higher on weekends. The most recent issue of the Hebrew...lungs. Death rates were much higher on weekends for these three conditions, as well as...

Article: Cot death danger peaks at weekends.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 21, 2004 ;     347 words ...Cot deaths are more likely to happen at weekends, a study confirmed today. Researchers...investigations also noted a cot death peak at weekends. However these were small studies, and...pay less attention to their babies at weekends. A team led by Professor Peter Helms...

Article: Stress expert: long weekends aren't enough. (Howard Glazer)(Management) (Brief Article)
American Banker;  September 19, 1991 ;     299 words ...Stress Expert: Long Weekends Aren't Enough It is September 1991...times, executives are grabbing long weekends, taking more work with them, and keeping...Dr. Glazer compared such use of long weekends to a circuit breaker that is used to...

Article: Capital eye unit set for closure at weekends
Evening News - Scotland;  November 13, 2006 ;     612 words ......the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion at weekends in a bid to end what is seen as a wasteful...hospital is sometimes being kept open at weekends with five nurses, porters and security...be possible to close the hospital at weekends, saving a substantial amount of money...