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This week's cover grew out of Christine's own exercise regimen and the changes she has made in her diet. It is a measure of the loyalty of her readers that when she once wrote that she was looking for a good recipe for Brussels sprouts, she received more than 40 different recipes. (Oddly enough, none of her colleagues asked to borrow any.) Her greatest reward is learning how her columns have alerted people to check out symptoms they had been ignoring. One woman wrote that her mother was saved from a massive stroke as a result...
Wouldn't it be great if there were a vitamin or a drug or a fad diet that would protect you? Unfortunately, undoing the damage from a lifetime of bad habits means learning--and sticking with--a whole new set of behaviors. After all, anybody can lose 10 or 20 lbs., and many of us have--over and over again. It's only by maintaining that weight loss, however, that you derive real, lasting benefits...
...Pounds lost last year by now 180-lb. Jared Fogle, who twice daily ate only a low-fat sub, chips and diet soda at Subway restaurants...
...have a weight problem, you have more than your diet or your gym to thank. You also owe a nod to your leptin gene. And while you're at it, tip a hat to your MC4 receptors and your PC1 enzymes and your POMC peptides. Hard to figure out the role this alphabet soup of stuff plays in helping keep you thin? Don't feel bad. It's all new to scientists...
Nutritionists know that the two great pillars of weight control--diet and exercise--can't be all there is to avoiding obesity. Why else could two otherwise healthy people eat identical foods, keep identically active and still see the numbers on the scale move in opposite directions? For years much of this has been explained with hand-waving references to body types and metabolism--broadly accurate, but cold comfort to the estimated 61% of Americans who are overweight or obese and want to have their weight controlled, not merely explained...