Word: fatter
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About one thing, however, there is no dispute. As a society we are clearly in a state of nutritional crisis and in need of radical remedies. The statistics are sobering. After 30 years of seemingly solid advice aimed at lowering dietary fat, Americans have grown collectively fatter than ever. Today more than 60% of adults in the U.S. are classified as overweight or obese. So many children have become so heavy that pediatricians are now facing an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and hypertension--diseases that are closely associated with overweight and that were unheard of among youngsters just...
...balance. For as we layer on fat, we pump out more leptin, which signals the hypothalamus that it's time to accelerate energy output and brake caloric intake. The problem is, people who gain weight have now been shown to develop a remarkable resistance to leptin's power. The fatter they get, and the more leptin they make, the more impervious the hypothalamus becomes. Eventually the hypothalamus interprets the elevated level of leptin as normal--and forever after misreads the drops in leptin caused by weight loss as a starvation signal. This phenomenon provides a biochemical explanation...
...particularly confused about what makes us fat. The old arguments--is it too much fat, too many carbohydrates or too many calories?--were stirred up once again last month by an article in the New York Times Magazine suggesting that low-fat diets may be making us fatter. While the new information about PYY won't help you choose between a high-protein or low-fat diet, it goes a long way toward explaining how the brain and the digestive system conspire to keep the pounds...
Whole Foods, along with its chief rival, Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo., is riding a surge of interest in so-called natural and organic foods. While such foods account for just 3% of Americans' grocery bills, they attract higher-income buyers and yield fatter profits for grocers and producers. And a parade of food scares--mad-cow disease, hormones and antibiotics in meat and milk, pesticides in produce, genetically altered "Frankenfoods"--is propelling more shoppers to go organic. Result: sales of natural and organic foods are growing at an 18% annual clip and are projected to surpass...
...practices combined yoga/ballet three times a week. "People didn't have the time or money to spend on themselves, but at least they were healthier because they ate simple things and exercised because their work was strenuous. Today, some people may be wealthier, but they're also getting fatter and living more stressed-out lives...