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...Overweight women on the Atkins plan lost more weight over a year than those on the low-carb Zone diet. And they had slightly better blood pressure and cholesterol readings than those on the Zone; the very low-fat, high-carb Ornish diet, and a low-fat, high-carb diet similar to U.S. government guidelines...
...With an average starting weight of about 189 pounds, even losing 13 pounds meant many women remained overweight...
...children are eating more and eating the wrong kinds of foods, they’re also doing less,” Bistrian said. “You don’t know if these associations are causative. It could be that these children who are watching TV are already overweight...
...DePauw University late last year was a scene straight out of the history books: unabashed, ugly discrimination. In a scene that belied fifty years of progress on American college campuses, 23 of the 35 women of the DePauw chapter of the Delta Zeta (DZ) sorority, including every overweight member, and the only black, Vietnamese, and Korean members, were summarily uprooted from their house and effectively evicted from their chapter, by many accounts part of an image makeover mandated by adult officers of DZ’s national organization. We use the term “adult” loosely...
...capita prison population of any nation in the world. Many Americans still struggle to make ends meet, and the Americans who do “make it” often find that their material success doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make up five percent of the world’s population, we consume 30 percent of its resources. It’s simply not possible or prudent for the “developing” world to copy the American...