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Still another program works with overweight children, and helps improve both their health and self image with exercise and nutritional classes...
GIRTH OF A NATION Researchers have known that obese parents tend to have overweight kids. Now a study shows that the offspring are twice as likely to wind up as obese adults...
...equation suddenly seesaw the other way? Partly because clinical trials reveal only the most obvious side effects; the heart-valve changes discovered over the summer do not initially cause visible symptoms in most patients. Also, many doctors went overboard, giving Redux and fen/phen to patients who were merely overweight, not obese, a violation of the FDA and drug-company prescription criteria that couldn't help skewing the risk-benefit ratio...
...look at the history of diet pills, they've tended to start off with tremendous acclaim and then something goes wrong," she says. "Before it was amphetamines, which proved to be addictive, and now it's Redux and fenfluramine, which have been linked to heart trouble. What most overweight people really need, therefore, is a better diet and more exercise." Sound advice. But as long as drug companies continue to tout magic weight-loss solutions, health club memberships and orders at the salad bar aren't about to increase...
They are a marvelously mixed lot, variously overweight, uptight, overage and ungraceful, and they are moved by a nice mix of persuasive motives in Simon Beaufoy's unforced script. Director Peter Cattaneo poises their conflict between need and shame lightly but firmly, and his actors--especially Mark Addy, whose Dave struggles touchingly with flab and impotence--achieve a similarly persuasive balance between the comedy and pathos of self-exposure. Will they ultimately dare the full monty (Britspeak for removing their G-strings) at the conclusion of their first show? That's eyes-only information. But to make an unembarrassing movie...