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...happening? The obvious, almost trivial answer is that we eat too much high-calorie food and don't burn it off with enough exercise. If only we could change those habits, the problem would go away. But clearly it isn't that easy. Americans pour scores of billions of dollars every year into weight-loss products and health-club memberships and liposuction and gastric bypass operations--100,000 of the latter last year alone. Food and drug companies spend even more trying to find a magic food or drug that will melt the pounds away. Yet the nation's collective...
...your fat deposits start to shrink--for example, when you lose weight--the amount of leptin in your body falls, a situation that the brain interprets as a result of starvation. The whole system of chemicals and neurological impulses shifts in an attempt to get the body to burn fewer calories so that it can regain the weight. The greater the weight loss, the stronger the signals to eat more and replenish fat stores...
...contrast, people who gain weight are following the body's natural urge to hoard calories. Slight changes in the way you burn and store calories can lead, over time, to piling on the pounds. And while some of the factors responsible for these changes are within your control--how much you exercise or whether you take a second helping of ice cream--most are either inherited or the inbred responses of an organism that is designed to protect itself from starvation. Stress, sleep deprivation and long days packed with constant activity have a tendency to accumulate weight. "If we took...
...banter turns to what kind of behavior is acceptable in war. One Vietnam vet at the bar recalls atrocities: "I knew guys in Vietnam with dried ears and penises hanging from their dog tags," he says. "What these guys did in Iraq was bad, and they ought to burn for it, but it's not the worst thing we've done...
...think so. Increasingly, we are haunted by the suspicion that we could have done something to prevent the mess that Iraq had become. Our protests against the war seem like inadequate liberal window-dressing when you think of the pictures of broken bodies, American and Iraqi, that increasingly burn from the pages of magazines and newspapers. It has been easy to think of, and to protest, this war without thinking of the soldiers who are fighting it. Both hawks and doves’ discussions of the war have taken place in a theoretical realm, invoking grand concepts?...