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...economy to the tune of many billions of dollars a year. One measure is the U.S. current-account deficit with Japan: $32.3 billion in 1990. That means, in essence, that the Japanese sold $32 billion more of goods and services to Americans than Americans sold to the Japanese. The excess represents a loan to the American economy, which takes various concrete forms. For example, an estimated 20% to 40% of new U.S. Government bonds are now purchased by Japanese interests. (Opponents of U.S. aid to the Soviet Union complain that it would amount to passing money from Tokyo through Washington...
...explanation is that fluctuating weight may so stress the body that blood pressure and cholesterol levels become elevated. Men appeared to face greater risk of ill effects than women, possibly because they tend to store excess fat in the abdomen, while women carry it around the hips and thighs. Fat from the belly is more easily mobilized and sent into the bloodstream, where it can clog vital blood vessels. Psychologist Kelly Brownell of Yale University, who directed the study, emphasizes that the findings do not condemn dieting. Rather, they indicate that people need to set realistic goals and be committed...
Brownell believes yo-yo dieting may eventually prove most dangerous, not for people who are vastly overweight, but for people who are continuously battling those last five or 10 excess pounds. "These people are fighting their own biology," he says. "Our notion of the ideal body is much leaner than it needs to be for health reasons...
...grade-schoolers have highlighted their staggering abhorrence of fat. Shown drawings of an obese child and children with various disabilities, they were asked whom they would select to be their friend. The obese child always came in last. Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick...
...cult of ethnicity has unhealthy consequences. It gives rise, for example, to the conception of the U.S. as a nation composed not of individuals making their own choices but of inviolable ethnic and racial groups. It rejects the historic American goals of assimilation and integration. And, in an excess of zeal, well-intentioned people seek to transform our system of education from a means of creating "one people" into a means of promoting, celebrating and perpetuating separate ethnic origins and identities. The balance is shifting from unum to pluribus...