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Wait a minute. Why, then, are more than one-third of Americans seriously overweight? Here the report provides what is probably the most important insight of all. While we may not gain as much as we think in winter, we routinely neglect to take off our fresh fat in spring. We allow the pounds to accumulate year after year in tiny increments we hardly notice--until we try to stuff ourselves into our old jeans. Call it stealth flab. Indeed, the massive once-a-decade National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey concurs. It shows that over a 10-year period...
...possible for you to beat insulin resistance through lifestyle changes. Losing weight, if you're overweight, is a start. But even if you have trouble dropping pounds, getting more exercise and adding whole grains to your diet can lower your resistance and decrease your need for medication. No one ever said treating diabetes is easy, but there's a lot you can do to keep it from controlling your life...
SUGAR ALERT Type 2 diabetes was almost unheard of in children only a decade ago. But now, with a quarter of U.S. kids overweight, a panel named by the American Diabetes Association warns of "an emerging epidemic." The panel says that overweight children with high cholesterol, high blood pressure or a family history of diabetes should lose weight, exercise and get screened for diabetes...
...ordeal reminded me a bit of a movie from the early '90s, Muriel's Wedding. Muriel, a pathetic and overweight Abba-loving Aussie, weds a handsome Olympic swimmer she does not know so that the Olympic committee can consider him an Australian for competition. One of the movie's taglines claims, "She's not just getting married, she's getting even." Muriel was ostensibly rebelling against the ridicule and banter she endured as a lonely single woman. The film evoked pity and sympathy from audiences across the globe...
WEIGHT WOES A study in the journal Pediatrics reveals that being overweight begins to take an emotional toll on adolescents at about the time that peer pressure starts to overtake family influence. At ages 9 and 10, obese and nonobese kids show no difference in self-esteem. But by 13 and 14, overweight youths tend to exhibit lower self-worth, especially white and Hispanic girls. Such youngsters are more likely to drink and smoke too. Experts urge parents to instill good eating habits in kids early and to stress that people don't normally look like models...