Although both body-mass index (BMI) and physical activity might be attenuating the link between sedentary behaviour and some types of cancer, researchers still suggested adults (aged 50-71) who watched TV for at least 7 hours a day had a 22% increased risk of cancer mortality relative to those who watched TV less than one hour a day (40, 77).
Taylor feels relieved that Turtleâs first sound was a laugh; it reassures Taylor that she is doing a decent job of raising Turtle, for she feels that if Turtle were unhappy, she would not laugh. A little later, as Turtle and Taylor help Mattie plant the garden, Turtle says her first word: âbean.â. One night, Lou Ann tells Taylor about her fear that the horrible things she imagines will happen in real life. She tells Taylor that in high school she stood looking over a cliff and imagined jumping.
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a 1992 animation directed by Ray Messecar and narrated by John Lithgow (later released and cropped to widescreen format on Blu-Ray part of Who's Who in the Dr. Seuss?). The Red Hot Chili Peppers adapted the story in the song Yertle the Turtle on their second album, Freaky Styley, released in 1985. In 1961 RCA Camden Records released Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories with the three stories on the A side and Bartholomew and the Oobleck on the B side.