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...easy watching your own history repeat itself. At first, Jo--a 49-year-old mother of two from Georgia--thought she would be spared having to witness her children relive her long struggle with obesity. Indeed, when Jo's second child Renee was born 12 weeks early, weighing just 2 lb. 11 oz. (1.2 kg), obesity was the last thing on Jo's mind...
Today, things are different. Now 11 years old, Renee (a pseudonym, as is Jo) weighs 126 lb. (57 kg) and stands 4 ft. 5 in. (135 cm) tall--and Jo worries about obesity all the time. She worries about the health consequences of Renee's weighing too much, the ones she has experienced throughout her own life. She worries about her daughter's being teased or ostracized on account of her weight, just as Jo was teased and ostracized as a child. And she worries that she's not doing enough--or that she's doing too much--to change...
...Renee whines to me about being hungry all the time," says Jo. "She knows I'm a softie and might just let her have another snack. I've done nothing but diet all my life, and I know how it feels." That feeling of deprivation, according to Satter, is a recipe for disaster. "You end up putting a lot of pressure on food," she says, "and the kids end up losing track of how hungry or full they are. They get into a habit of eating while the eating is good, instead of simply eating until they are full...
...times they do - they put out no effort, trying to get by on their great individual style. But it was center back Pepe who found a way through the Turkish defense, taking a Ronaldo pass and playing a one-two with Nuno Gomes. In injury time, Ronaldo and João Moutinho created a tap-in for Raul Meireles, who had come on a minute earlier. They are Grade A in Group...
...search for the hostages. (The U.S. now requires that twin-engine aircraft be used there.) But the hostages' families ask why the Bush Administration didn't provide more military backup on the contractors' Colombian missions. "Did they really never think this sort of thing could happen?" asks Gonsalves' mother Jo Rosano, of Bristol, Conn. "They sent civilians into a place they knew the rebels would be, and we get the impression they don't care." Rosano and others credit the new U.S. ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, with bringing urgency to the case. "We need to remind Americans," Brownfield says...