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Jack Black is not a particularly funny man. He can pull off a one-liner, and he brightly sustains the Chris Farley torch of manic physical clowning, but it’s clear that his comedic range is inversely related to his girth. Could you ever see Black settling into the kind of roles that Bill Murray now occupies so comfortably...
What's especially compelling about the UCSF research, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is that it suggests that the extra girth can actually have a calming effect on the brain. Something in the abdominal fat--the researchers aren't sure what--seems to lower the rats' production of cortisol and other stress hormones. "This is absolutely a working hypothesis," says Mary Dallman, the neuroscientist who led the UCSF experiments. "But everything we see says there's a feedback from the belly fat to the brain...
...individuals, overweight Americans shoulder numerous expenses beyond higher medical bills. In general, life-insurance premiums rise in proportion to your girth, even if you are otherwise in perfect health. Says Bill Simons, an independent insurance broker in Washington: "It could easily be double, triple or up to five times the normal premium...
...Evansville, Ind.: "This trend has expanded from die-hard low-carbers to a general population that is becoming much more carb-conscious." Indeed, in all-you-can-eat America, where 64% of the population is overweight, fully one-third of adults who say they are concerned about their girth have tried cutting carbs, reports Natural Marketing Institute, a consulting firm in Harleysville...
...average, minus carry-on bags, proposed by the FAA to account for Americans' increasing girth...