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...Actress Camryn Manheim is overweight and lovely. So is my wife. No one wants a nation of size-8 robots. I'd settle for an effective battle against extreme obesity (starting in infancy) and getting everyone into exercising more. That should improve health without terrorizing the merely plump or pinning our hopes on a magic pill. CHRIS FOREMAN Takoma Park...
DIED. JENNIFER PATERSON, 71, plump TV chef and co-star of the high-cholesterol British cooking series Two Fat Ladies; of lung cancer; in London (see Eulogy...
...long ago, ordering margarine with your toast seemed like a downright virtuous thing to do. Without all the saturated fats that plump up butter, margarine was said to be the perfect way to get flavor without endangering your heart. In recent years, however, evidence has mounted that this supposedly healthier spread poses cardiac risks of its own. And last week a study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that those risks are so great that it may be time to consider modifying food labels so consumers can tell which butter substitutes are good for them and which...
...minute subway ride away, the lawn in front of Harvard's Tercentenary Theatre is plush, and the crowd seems plump with well-being. Alum Jerome Vered, 41, an HBO researcher, feels fortunate that he hasn't faced "a real curveball, like a spouse or child dying." Tamara Remy, 24, a new Harvard Law grad, holds pink flowers and high hopes. "Just today we were wondering if there's a President among us," she says of her class...
DEFLATE THE FATTEST PILLOWS. Social Security was meant to keep the elderly from falling into poverty when they could no longer work, not to plump up an extra cushion under the already well off. Investment banker Peter Peterson proposes paying full Social Security benefits only to those whose income from other sources is $35,000 a year or less. Payments to the better off would be reduced on a sliding scale starting at 7.5%; those with outside income of $185,000 or more would receive only 15% of the Social Security pension that they would qualify for without such...