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...What happens is, you get fat, and that's precisely what we've done. In 1900 the average weight of a college-age male in the U.S. was 133 lb. (60 kg); the average woman was 122 lb. (55 kg). By 2000, men had plumped up to 166 lb. (75 kg) and women to 144 lb. (65 kg). And while the small increase in average height for men (women have remained the same) accounts for a bit of that, our eating habits are clearly responsible for most. Over the past 20 years in particular, we've stuffed ourselves like...
...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...
...original concept and menu haven't changed much in 10 years, but the scale of production has increased dramatically. "If you're chopping 100 kg of mushrooms, you do it one way," Goncharov says. "If it's 200 kg of mushrooms, you do it a totally different way." The company has upgraded factories four times, and now has a 4,000-sq-m site...
With Fit, Miyamoto is abandoning those familiar faces--it's about time, say his critics--and taking gamers in a new direction. Although many people dread weighing themselves, the slight, 137-lb. (62 kg) designer hatched the idea for Wii Fit when he realized he got a kick out of charting his own weight on a piece of paper taped to the wall: "My whole family took an interest. Seeing how that was able to excite the people in my family, I thought, Oh, this is a really neat experience that I'd like to bring to other people...