Word: overweightness
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...researchers were worried too about the exploding rate of childhood obesity; 16% of kids are now considered overweight, nearly three times the percentage in 1980. "This predisposes children to a lot of health problems when they become adults," says Edward Sondik, director of the National Center for Health Statistics...
...called visceral fat that surrounds internal organs. Nor does liposuction reduce the size of any remaining fat cells; large fat cells appear to produce more harmful proteins than do small ones. Some doctors believe the results would have been better if the patients had been only a few pounds overweight. In any case, the best way to shrink fat cells is still to create a negative energy balance by--you guessed it--eating fewer calories than you burn...
Thank you for the comprehensive articles on the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. [June 7]. It is only to be expected that we should become a nation of overweight people; after all, from childhood we are taught to consume as much as possible. If it weren't for voracious consumers, our economy would be in trouble. Clearly, too many of us believe that a little is good, more is better and too much is just enough. CHARLES J. HUEBNER Petoskey, Mich...
...matter more private and less public than what we choose to put in our bodies. Give Americans moral, financial and personal responsibility for their own health, and obesity is no longer a public matter but a private one--with all the costs, concerns and worries of being overweight borne only by those people who are actually overweight...
...counter criticism, the food industry and pro-business groups use a public relations script focused on personal responsibility. The script has three elements: 1) if people are overweight, it is their own fault; 2) industry responds to consumer demand but does not create it; and 3) insisting that industry change--say, by not marketing to children or requiring restaurants to reveal calories--is an attack on freedom...