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Research shows that 80% of American women check out--and disapprove of--their reflections minutes after waking. On any given day, 45% say they are dieting. Scarier yet, a 1992 study found that 46% of girls 9 to 11 say they are "sometimes" or "very often" on a diet, and experts agree that the numbers have probably increased since then...
That was the case for Kristen Cole, a publicist in Northampton, Mass., who grew up watching her mother diet. Cake was pronounced "decadent." Cole, 33, believes such behavior helped pave the way for her struggles with anorexia and bulimia, which began...
...nutritionist employed by the local school district. Three hands shoot up. "Without it we become tired," answers Margo Demarey, with gleeful enthusiasm. If only more of Europe's children knew as much about healthy food. Just like their counterparts in the U.S., European kids increasingly feast on a diet high in fat and sugar and low in nutrition - and too often that includes what their schools feed them. The junk-food problem was highlighted recently by British television chef Jamie Oliver, who describes meals served in British schools as "mostly rubbish." Poor diets have fuelled a big increase...
Americans still seem to love one thing about the French, which is why the diet book French Women Don't Get Fat became a best seller. But when the book is released in France this fall, the reaction is likely to be more skeptical. Experts there are increasingly concerned about France's weight problem. A recent book by politician Jean-Marie Le Guen, Obesity: A New French Illness, notes that women in France, like women everywhere else, do get fat because they have less time to shop for fresh produce and are wolfing down more processed foods. Over the past...
...French are ahead of us in one important way: they have launched an ambitious state-sponsored effort to head off weight gain before it reaches American proportions. Le Guen is backing several bills in the National Assembly that would regulate diet and exercise nationwide. Starting this fall, vending machines will be banned from all public schools and universities. Ten cities have adopted a school curriculum, based on eating well and in moderation, developed in Fleurbaix Laventie, a small town near the Belgian border. There, kids are taught to choose vegetables and fresh foods over fried and processed ones. From...