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...following pages will make it clear that there's plenty of reason for hope. Researchers are hard at work trying to understand the basic biochemistry of hunger and fat metabolism; policymakers are pushing for better labels and nutritional information; school boards are giving their cafeteria menus a closer look and reconsidering vending-machine contracts with makers of sugary soft drinks; urban planners are rethinking our cities and towns to get us out of the car and onto our feet; Americans in record numbers are putting themselves on low-carb and low-calorie diets; and more and more foodmakers are beginning...
Unless you make a determined effort, you'll probably choose the path of least resistance. Evolving during a time of scarcity, humans developed an instinctive desire for basic tastes--sweet, fat, salt--that they could never fully satisfy. As a result, says Rutgers University anthropologist Lionel Tiger, "we don't have a cut-off mechanism for eating. Our bodies tell us, 'Fat is good to eat but hard to get.'" The second half of that equation is no longer true, but the first remains a powerful drive...
...damage he did to his liver was roughly the same as if he had been on an alcohol binge of a similar duration. There is also evidence that he became something of a fast-food addict, with his sense of well-being increasingly dependent on the rush his fat-and fructose-laden eats provided. You come away from his film convinced that "Happy Meal" is something more than a trademark. For a certain class of Americans, it is the cheapest available source of bliss--ephemeral yet palpable...
There is, however, one mystery Super Size Me and, indeed, most commentaries on the obesity epidemic do not address. Everyone knows that fat is ugly and that it kills. The press has been all over this story for years while at the same time celebrating the svelte and the diets that make them that way. So it's not enough to say the fast-food industry's propaganda trumps our mass desire to be slender. Something else must be operative here--some desperate need for sugary comfort that all the green, leafy vegetables in the world cannot satisfy. We still...
...first things that strike foreigners visiting the U.S. is that the rich tend to be skinny and the poor fat. Studies bear this out. The less money you have in America, the likelier you are to be overweight. One in 4 adults below the poverty level is obese, compared with 1 in 6 in households with an income of $67,000 or more. For minorities, poverty has an even heavier effect: obesity strikes 1 in 3 poor African Americans...