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...tall order for most of us. If you can't overcome your hang-ups about your body, tell your daughters that it's a problem--your problem. With self-awareness and care, Kendrick says, you can avoid infecting them. Cole is now healthy, lean and active, a mother of two girls, 3 and 5. She tells them food is for energy and sweets are fine in moderation. "I keep the same Oreos in my cabinet as my mom did," she says, "but I took away the idea that some food is harmful." For her daughters, that may make...
...Society ... [The fitness obsession] seized folks overnight, and the sport of mass running had begun. Suburbanites jogged like herds of oestrous gazelles down side streets. Marriages were threatened when one spouse trained for a marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. -TIME...
...sure, no one is ever likely to deny the actuarial fact that staying lean and active is one of the best routes to a long life. Many studies point out that excess weight is associated not only with a lot of frequently cited dangers--diabetes, stroke, heart disease, sleep apnea and joint problems among them--but also with many less frequently cited ones, such as cancer. A recent study of 135 men, published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation, seems to confirm this, acknowledging that while getting fit is associated with reducing a number of health risks, failing...
More common, if less headline making, than the fat-and-fit are people who are very heavy and not terribly healthy but at least improving. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study of 116,000 women and reported that lean but sedentary subjects had a 55% greater chance of dying prematurely than lean and active ones. Fat and active women were worse off still, with almost twice the risk of the lean-and-actives, and fat and sedentary women were worst of all, at nearly 212 times the risk. That's not the rosy picture the Cooper...
...great American obesity epidemic has given rise to its own literary sub-genre. You could call it Chunk Lit: memoirs of the overweight. This wicked, paradoxically lean example chronicles McClure's overeating, her love-hate cycles with Weight Watchers, her rationalizations ("Everyone says Renée Zellweger looks hotter in that one movie"). And what it's like to binge, postbreakup, on hamburger buns sprayed with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!: "It is like a sandwich ... made of emptiness and disbelief." I'm Not the New Me is, in every way, tastier and more filling than that...