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Twenty-five years after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture began issuing dietary guidelines to keep us healthy and fit, nearly two-thirds of Americans have become overweight or obese. So in the 2005 edition of the guidelines--on which school lunch menus are based--the HHS Secretary toughened the message, providing specific limits on fat and salt and urging us to eat our vegetables and exercise regularly...
Over two-thirds of Americans are overweight, and one-third are obese. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity now rivals smoking as the leading preventable cause of death...
...Existing data shows it is absolutely possible to be overweight, active and healthy,” said Timothy Church, Medical Director at the Cooper Institute, a large non-profit research and teaching institute focusing on diet and health. “We are overly fixated as a society on obesity, which misses the point of the problem, which is poor diet coupled with sedentary lifestyles...
There aren't many head-to-head studies of brand-name diet regimens, and now we know why. When scientists assigned 160 overweight or obese adults to one of four diets--Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers or Zone--the results were hardly dramatic. After a year of dieting, the average weight loss for women was about 5 lbs. and for men about 6.5 lbs.--and it didn't matter much which diet they were on. Perhaps the most significant finding was how many test subjects dropped out: half of the Atkins and Ornish groups, a third of Weight Watchers and Zone...
...crisis has been a long time coming. Diet books have been selling briskly for decades, and Richard Simmons' fitness infomercials from the '80s seem positively retro. Despite a national obsession with losing weight, however, we have continued to put on pounds. Today one-third of Americans are not just overweight but obese. That's why the issue got more attention in 2004 than ever before from health experts, government agencies and the media--including Time and abc News, which jointly sponsored a conference on obesity in May. And it's why I've decided--on my own authority--to declare...