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Legacy Journal:  the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?

Peak performance across the board is difficult whether one is dancing with the stars or training as a triathlete.  Gina Koleta of the nytimes continues to impress with her columns on exercise and competition. 

The same can be said of country naturalists, like Charles Darwin, working and writing from home at in Kent during the haydays of 19th century Victorian England.  The amateurs with all their enthusiasm for beatles and barnicles, reputations protected by a coterie of friends and family, and popular publishing success , were being replaced by the professional academics, societies, laboratories, and the latest in German instrumentation and organized science research

Meanwhile, the University of Rochester had a one day meeting at the City Convention Center for health care professionals treating women who are are pbese, diabetic or both. Guess what?

* American women are eating more, exercising less ,and gaining weight just like the Pina Indians did after they gave up their hunting and gathering more than a century ago.

* Fat woman are a risk for early death, growing big babies during pregnancy, having wound infections, and being difficult to manage during anesthesia and fetal evaluation exams like ultrasound.

* They may even break standard delivery room and operating room tables.  Whoa!

* Gastric bypass and banding surgery many have better, faster and more cost effective than medical therapy for morbid obesity in a properly selected population. 

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