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...causes an impressive 37%. Some women clearly benefited more than others, however. The mortality rate for women with one or more risk factors for heart disease, for example, dropped 49% compared with only 11% for women with no risk factors (that is, women who are nonsmokers, who are not overweight and who don't have high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history of heart disease...
...enough food. "If a lack of serotonin is the reason patients are overeating, then Redux should work beautifully," Joseph says. "But if they are overeating for some other reason, then it probably won't do any good. The question no one has answered is, What percentage of overweight people have low serotonin levels?" Such studies are impossible, experts say, without doing a biopsy on living brain tissue...
...grew up in San Francisco. My father would have described Ariel as weighing "65 lbs. soaking wet--with her galoshes on." In Kansas City she wouldn't be wide enough to be noticed. I am aware that Ariel probably doesn't think that having the fourth-highest percentage of overweight residents (after New Orleans; Norfolk, Virginia; and San Antonio, Texas) is something to boast about. I am aware that she would not understand the pride I heard in the voice of Arthur Bryant, the legendary Kansas City barbecue man, many years ago when he told me his method of preparing...
...Another downside to being outsized. Obesity for women may be the leading risk factor for developing BLOOD CLOTS in the lungs. In a major study, overweight women had triple the normal risk of lung clots...
Becker described "widespread cultural forces to be thin" in the U.S. and said that because Americans are becoming increasingly overweight, the ideal of thinness "is increasingly unattainable...