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...matter what she did, Cindy Smith just couldn't shed the 60 lbs. she'd gained during her pregnancy nine years ago. She went through over-the-counter weight-loss pills, liquid diets, starvation diets--always with the same result. "I would try it for about a week," says Smith, 38, a customer-service manager at a Houston bank. "I'd lose maybe 5 to 10 lbs., then get discouraged and end up dropping...
...University, and Smith signed up. For two years, she and thousands of other overweight patients maintained a low-fat diet, exercised--and swallowed a medication called orlistat three times a day. "My clothes started fitting a lot looser after a month," she says. Today Smith is down to 150 lbs., her prepregnancy weight. Not only that, but she's maintaining the loss and hopes to drop even more...
...according to a German report that analyzed data on 6,000 men and women. Obese young and middle-aged folks have a greater risk of dying than the fit, but the danger seems to diminish as they grow older. Researchers even suggest that most adults can safely gain 10 lbs. every decade without cutting their life short...
...calling. Paunchy and with a graying beard, he is not quite the image of a NASA poster boy. But Energiya claims he's got the right stuff, that he's fit to fly and is a licensed pilot. Llewellyn, however, conceded to the Moscow Times that he's 112 lbs. overweight and, though he was certified to pilot a Cessna in 1976, has not flown a plane in 19 years. Still, Energiya says if Llewellyn can raise $100 million, he gets a week of room and board on Mir this August...
...American Association for Cancer Research shows that daily doses of lycopene, an antioxidant that ripens tomatoes and gives them their red color, may not only prevent prostate cancer but shrink existing tumors as well. Men who took 30 mg of the supplement (the quantity found in 2 lbs. to 3 lbs. of tomatoes) had lower levels of prostate-specific antigen--an indicator of cell growth--and smaller tumors...