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...next time you stare in judgment at a fat person on the bus or bemoan your physique in the mirror, remember that nature has stacked the deck against weight loss. Trimming 25 lbs. from your figure may not be that difficult. But try shedding 100 lbs., and your body is going to scream. Whether willpower, exercise, drugs or even surgery is enough to quiet the body's basic need for fat is still an open question...
From 1972 to 2002, the amount of sugar and syrup produced annually per American grew 21%, from 104 lbs. to 126 lbs., according to the Department of Agriculture. In that same time period, the percentage of syrup sweetener in that total grew from less than 1% to nearly...
...released by the intestines after a meal to signal the brain that the body has had enough. Giving obese patients a synthetic form of cholecystokinin before meals tricks the body into feeling full, so patients eat less. About 25% of the participants in an early trial lost almost 7 lbs. in the first eight weeks...
...living in 448 well-populated counties (nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population lives in those counties). Ewing found that people in sprawling counties weighed more than those in more compact ones. Residents of the most spread-out locale, Ohio's Geauga County, outside Cleveland, weighed on average 6.3 lbs. more than those living in the most condensed, Manhattan. Geauga County residents were also 29% more likely to have high blood pressure than New Yorkers. (So much for the stresses of city life.) One possible reason: people who lived in the 25 most sprawling counties walked an average...
...knows what it's like to be obese. "Ever since I was a kid, I was probably always chunky," she says. "Every year I would just gain weight." By the time the 5-ft. 5-in. San Francisco city worker was 34, she tipped the scales at 260 lbs. "I was self-conscious about everything--getting on a bus, sitting in an airplane seat," she recalls. "I would put off seeing doctors, I was so embarrassed...