Sentences with phrase «more than an average adult»

Did not, for instance, Aristotle say that a proper trait of a philosopher's mind is the capacity of wonder — which children certainly have more than an average adult?

The study conducted by Target Training International found that the one trait that serial entrepreneurs excelled in more than the average adult was the skill of persuasion.

Not exact matches

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

In fact, Gallup interviews of more than 5,000 employed adults in Germany revealed that, on average, employees who are engaged at work only miss 3.9 days of work per year.

Like Deadpool before it, Logan demonstrates that adults will turn out for tentpole fare that is bloodier and more profane than your average X-Men movie.

Like Harry, every adolescent — and every adult — faces defining choices in responding to good and to evil, choices that count for much more than SAT scores, grade - point averages or adjusted gross income.

The World Health Organisation currently recommends that not more than 10 % of your daily calories come from free sugars (added sugars)-- this would equal about 12 level teaspoons for an average adult, though they have recently been reviewing this and pushing for a new limit of just half that amount — to below 5 %.

Norwegian environmental group The Future in Our Hands (FOH) applauded the move, noting that, over the course of a lifetime, a Norweigan adult eats on average more than 1,200 animals, including 1,147 chickens, 22 sheep, 6 cows and 3 deer.

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

However, many may not know that pregnant women require even more fluid intake than an average adult does.

The long - term study of more than 3,000 men and women in Copenhagen found that those who were breastfed for 7 to 9 months averaged IQ scores that were 6.6 points higher at age 27 than adults who were nursed for 1 month or less.

Quantity and quality is based on individual need but studies show that children require more sleep and adults should have no less than 7 hours on average and no more that 8 hours.

As it stood, a shared starter, two kids meals, three adult meals, a pint and a half of Samuel Adams plus a Coke Zero for me and a mini milkshake for the girls and our bill came to # 79 — definitely not the most expensive meal but more than the average we'd usually spend on a casual lunch.

@spiceyokooko - withholding a vote from someone based on their age without any actual test of maturity seems a lot worse discrimination to me than granting someone an extra vote if they have more maturity than an average adult genius who tends to vote for taller, better looking candidates.

Sleep is overrated: «The average UK adult now spends more time using media or communications (8 hours 41 minutes) than they do sleeping (8 hours 21 minutes - the UK average),» according to a new study of digital behavior by Ofcom.

With a three - year survival rate of 94.39 percent for all adult kidney recipients — above the 92.62 percent national average — UCSF has more patients on the kidney transplant waiting list than any other U.S. transplant center.

Smokers are on average 30 per cent more likely than non-smokers to develop type 2 or adult - onset diabetes.

They found that baboon moms that were more social — quantified by the amount of time they spent being groomed by other adult females — had more than the average number of offspring survive to 12 months of age.

The research team defined an impaired driver as having a blood alcohol level of less than.15 percent and an extremely drunken driver as having a blood alcohol level of more than.15 percent, which translates to roughly six drinks within an hour for an average adult.

After crunching dietary data gathered from more than 4,700 adults, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that soft drinks provide more than 7 percent of the average daily adult intake of calories — the largest single source.

They base their findings on information from more than 11,500 adults, whose heart health and visible aging signs were tracked for an average of 11.5 years as part of the Copenhagen City Heart Study.

Now, a new study of sleep patterns in hunter - gatherer adults in Africa and South America has found they get no more sleep than people living in industrialized nations — an average of just 6.9 to 8.5 hours every night.

The adult marmots have gained half a pound on average and their numbers have more than doubled from 2000 to 2010, said researchers.

In fact, the average American adult consumes more than 3,400 mg of sodium per day.

The research tracked more than 11,500 Danish adults, aged 21 to 93, for an average of nearly 12 years.

More than half of adults drink coffee daily, and the average coffee drinker downs about three cups each day.

In the US, for example, an average adult consumes 3,500 mg of salt a day, which is about 50 % more than the usually recommended upper limit of around 2,400 mg.

New research has found seven out of 10 Australian adults are unable to concentrate on one task for more than half an hour at a time — less than the length of an average school period — while over half confessed to being distracted by other thoughts and losing concentration within just 15 minutes of starting a task.

In the study, which appears in the Archives of Neurology, Dr. Lin and his colleagues followed more than 600 dementia - free adults between the ages of 36 and 90 for an average of 12 years.

More than one - third of U.S. adults average less than 7 hours of sleep per night, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The research did find that children under 12 are getting slightly more produce, but teens and older Americans are eating even less than the averages for adults.

The World Health Organization recommend no more than 50gm refined sugar (about 12 small teaspoons) per day for an average adult and are considering reducing this to 25gm.

Safety Guidelines: The World Health Organization recommend no more than 50gm refined sugar (about 12 small teaspoons) per day for an average adult and are considering reducing this to 25gm.

This is far more than the 40 - 50 grams recommended for an average - sized adult and on the level of the protein consumption in the general population.

Among these studies are studies on more than 19,000 children representing of 47,000 patient years of growth hormone treatment; a prospective study of 100 adult growth hormone — deficient patients followed for 1 to 4 years, a study of 910 children treated with growth hormone for 11 years, a study of 32 adults and children followed for up to 40 years treated with growth hormone (average 10.8 years); a study of 180 growth hormone — treated children followed for over 6 years with reduced cancer recurrence risk (RR 0.6); a prospective analysis of 289 growth hormone — deficient adults who, after 5 years of growth hormone therapy, showed lower risk of malignancy (RR 0.25) and decreased risk of myocardial infarction (RR 0.19) and early mortality (RR 0.22) compared with the untreated group.

The average American adult consumes more than 200 pounds of fluid dairy milk and cream each year, according to the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.

The World Health Organization recommend no more than 50gm refined sugar per day (about 12 small teaspoons) for an average adult and are considering reducing this to 25gm.

This study shows how adults who drank a glass of water before and after each meal, on average, lost 2.6 pounds more than those who didn't.

Today the average American adult consumes an average of 22 teaspoons of sugar every day (93 gm), the average American child consumes over 32 teaspoons of sugar a day (135 gm), and the average teenage male now consumes more than 42 teaspoons of sugar per day (180 gm).

How to tell if you're dealing with insufficient sleep syndrome Nearly 30 percent of adults get less than six hours of sleep per night, on average (when most should be getting more like seven to nine).

Safety Guidelines: The World Health Organization recommend no more than 50gm refined sugar per day (about 12 small teaspoons) for an average adult.

Just consider the fact that the average adult's heart beats more than 100,000 times a day while pumping about 2,000 gallons of blood through miles of arteries and veins.

In fact, dietary survey data show that average U.S. adult men eat more than twice the amount of phosphorus that they need each day.

Most Americans get more than enough protein in their diets, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but they fall short on fiber intake, with the average adult in the United States having an intake of only 15 grams each day.

The average waist circumference of U.S. adults increased by more than an inch (from 37.6 inches to 38.8 inches) since 2000, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

This last aspect of the wheat belly diet (predicted calorie reduction) makes sense to us, given the fact that 6 ounces of wheat flour contain more than 400 calories, and the average U.S. adult consumes the equivalent of 6 ounces of wheat flour per day.

The ratio in beet greens may be more helpful to the average U.S. adult than the ratio in these other greens, since the average U.S. adult is more deficient in magnesium than calcium.

We have more features than the average legitimate adult dating sites.

The online dating industry is said to be worth about $ 2.2 billion, with one in ten adults averaging more than an hour a day on a dating site or app.

Those wanting a casual dating relationship or something more adult - oriented will find lots of bells and whistles here, along with a larger - than - average user base.