Word: overweighting
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...have exercised like this - obsessively, a bit grimly - for years, but recently I began to wonder: Why am I doing this? Except for a two-year period at the end of an unhappy relationship - a period when I self-medicated with lots of Italian desserts - I have never been overweight. One of the most widely accepted, commonly repeated assumptions in our culture is that if you exercise, you will lose weight. But I exercise all the time, and since I ended that relationship and cut most of those desserts, my weight has returned to the same...
...visceral fat than their subordinates, who carried the bulk of their body fat in their guts. In human populations, something similar happens: studies have linked lower social status to a higher incidence of metabolic syndrome - the condition whose symptoms include high blood pressure, high glucose levels and being overweight - which promotes heart disease...
That may be precisely the problem. Today roughly 17% of American kids and teens are obese, and parents cite obesity as a top concern for their children's health. Yet with so many other overweight kids in the class, it appears that parents can't recognize - or admit it to themselves - when their child is too heavy. When they do realize it, like Becky Cohn, parents often are upset or don't know how to implement pediatricians' vague orders about exercise and diet - much the way overweight adults are flummoxed by the same recommendations. (Read "Making Good Health Easy...
...Life Program at Children's Hospital Boston and the author of the kids'-weight-management book Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World. Kids aren't the ones buying family groceries, after all, and parents often struggle with being overweight themselves...
Ludwig gives parents tips on how to work with their kids, not against them, by reinforcing good habits instead of punishing bad ones. He tells pediatricians to relay a "message of hope" when they talk to families with overweight children. Obesity is not destiny, and in fact, because kids are still growing, they may have an easier time getting back to a healthy weight than adults do. "Most of the time, we're not talking about kids losing weight. Most of the time, we're talking about kids maintaining their weight while their height catches up," says Michigan's Davis...