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...just a little overweight, there are plenty�of books, magazines, videos and websites that will tell you how to lose those extra pounds. But very few emphasize the health benefits of simply maintaining your weight--even if you're a tad on the chunky side. And there's practically no advice for the extremely obese--folks who are at least 100 lbs. overweight and who have trouble moving, let alone exercising. Yet the number of morbidly obese Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years or so (from 1 in 200 to 1 in 50); in contrast, the number...
...older women--some of normal weight, some obese and some morbidly obese. They found over the course of the seven-year study that for white women, being obese rather than of normal weight was linked to a 12% greater risk of dying. Women who were at least 100 lbs. overweight, however, had an 86% greater risk of dying. Other racial groups showed similar links between increasing body size and death rate...
Cutting out sugar sounds like a winning strategy for a country that's 66% overweight or obese, but are sugar substitutes in fact good for you? The scientific record is less than absolute. Past studies of saccharin and aspartame, packaged as Sweet'n Low and Equal, respectively, suggested that large doses could cause cancer in rats, although human studies have shown no such link. The Food and Drug Administration says these high-intensity sweeteners--along with sucralose (Splenda)--pose no threat to human health. Most nutrition experts are willing to go along with that--with caveats. "I suspect that...
...wonder that, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 26% of 2-to-5-year-olds are at risk of becoming overweight, and 14% are already overweight--more than twice the incidence in the mid-'70s and up 35% in the past four years alone. Those numbers could rise as much as 30% overnight if the U.S. adopts the new growth-chart guidelines issued last month by the World Health Organization. "I'm seeing younger and younger kids overweight--as young as 10 months old," says Jan Hangen, a clinical nutrition specialist at Children...
...perhaps too short for any effect to be noticed. And the BMJ study could not effectively measure the influence of other factors that could have made a difference. Those who ate less salt may also have watched what they ate in general, for example, exercised more or been less overweight...