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...Things Are Going to Kill Me?" while Dr. David Ho weighs the chances for an AIDS vaccine. Three of our staff members--Christine Gorman, Michael Lemonick and Jeffrey Kluger--tackle the revolution in smart medicine ("Will Robots Make House Calls?"), the crisis in nutrition ("Will We Keep Getting Fatter?") and the prospects for repairing spinal-cord injuries ("Will Christopher Reeve Walk Again?"). Readers will learn how some cancers will be cured, when we will be able to make smarter babies, and what will be on your dinner plate (hint: you won't need steak sauce...
GIRTH OF A NATION Just look around: Americans are getting fatter. And now a government report confirms not only that more than half of us are overweight but also that the number who are obese--at least 30% heavier than the ideal weight--has skyrocketed from 12% of the population in 1991 to 18% today. Who is likeliest to put on pounds? Surprisingly, 18- to 29-year-olds and folks in the South, where the hot climate easily wilts enthusiasm for exercise...
...despite the harangues of medical experts, who constantly point out that obesity can lead to diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure, that's not likely to change. We'll keep getting fatter and fatter, with no real prospect of reversing the trend...
...seems likely that for a while at least we'll keep getting fatter. We can't undo evolution, and we haven't found a way to fool Mother Nature--yet. But before the 21st century is half over, with the body's fat-centric metabolism laid bare and the ability to manipulate genes part of medicine's standard tool kit, the trend may finally stop. Chubbiness may not disappear, but it could become optional. A future without Richard Simmons' commercials would be a wonderful future indeed...
...percent of fifth grade girls who diet? I'm not saying we would've written the great American novel--although it's rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here and there, but more often than not, it all comes back to the same, basic body...