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...MOTTO: "When you taste too many flavors at once, you overeat before feeling full...
...Black Friday." Adding to the mayhem, says Lars Perner, a marketing professor at San Diego State University, is that "people are tired and frustrated" after skimping for months to pay higher gasoline bills. "It's like the people who diet," he says, "and then Christmas comes, and they overeat...
FOOD PYRAMID The USDA's old food pyramid--with its diminishing stacks of carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables, protein, sweets and fats--may have been a license to overeat, as one expert called it, but at least it was comprehensible. The new pyramid, unveiled in April after long consultation with the food industry, is neither clear nor a call for moderation. To find out what those vertical color bars mean--and to build a customized food plan to fit your age, sex and level of physical activity--you have to visit the website mypyramid.gov
...PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS What deep inner urges drive some people to overeat and others to starve themselves...
...collective girth would be well received. "Other countries are laughing at us," says Harry Balzer, vice president at NPD Group, a market-research firm that studies eating patterns in the U.S. Those slim, wine-drinking, chain-smoking Europeans chuckle at our diet and health obsessiveness, since we continue to overeat. Yet there are signs that carb counting may be working. In its latest annual report, NPD found that after six consecutive years of weight gain, the number of overweight adult Americans fell 1 percentage point, to 55%. Was it carb counting? No one really knows. But at fast-food restaurants...