Word: overweightness
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...Angeles, Jesse Mercado was dismissed from his job as a security guard at the Times despite an excellent performance record. The reason? Mercado was overweight...
...study of 3,130 men and women, ages 30 to 62, participating in the landmark Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that so-called yo-yo dieters ran a 70% higher risk of dying from heart disease than did people whose weight stayed fairly steady, even if they were overweight...
Brownell believes yo-yo dieting may eventually prove most dangerous, not for people who are vastly overweight, but for people who are continuously battling those last five or 10 excess pounds. "These people are fighting their own biology," he says. "Our notion of the ideal body is much leaner than it needs to be for health reasons...
Americans, especially women, have become captives of this damaging aesthetic standard. Just consider Julia Roberts. In an earlier era she would have been considered a victim of starvation. "More than 70% of women say they feel fat, but only 23% are truly overweight," says Dr. Arnold Andersen, a psychiatrist at the University of Iowa who specializes in eating disorders. Thus about half of female dieters have no medical reason to lose weight; their efforts are purely cosmetic...
Even being truly overweight need not be unhealthy. "People who only look at the numbers on the bathroom scale are missing things that count," says Dr. MichaelHamilton, director of Duke University's Diet and Fitness Center. "They need better guidelines about what counts: bringing blood pressure, cholesterol or diabetes under control and being able to move better and be more energetic...