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It has been shown that reduction of body weight as small as 5% substantially reduces the morbidity and mortality risks of obesity, so even if recognizing and treating ADHD is only a modest contributor to reducing body fat mass, it is worthwhile on that grounds alone.
Portugal has innumerable festivals, fairs, and markets, though the folk festivals are modest compared with such international spectacles as the Carnival in Rio or the running of bulls in Pamplona.
The "TRB" column doubts that Fidel Castro will cooperate with the Clinton administration's modest embargo relaxation, "a policy that announces itself as an effort to gradually undermine his rule."
The utopian prototype, called the Universal Kitchen, is designed for maximum efficiency in cooking and cleaning: The 400 steps it now takes to prepare a modest dinner in an ordinary kitchen would be reduced to 100.
To inhibit any endogenous PP2A activity, which can also dephosphorylate phosphorylase a and thus interfere with PP1 activity measurements, these assays were carried out in the presence of 5 nM okadaic acid, which does not inhibit PP1 activity [ 30 ] . Although reproducible, we observed only modest increases in PP1-specific activity found in lysates from induced cells compared to the uninduced controls (Figure 7).