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...that can occur when fatty foods, caffeine and alcohol are flushed from the system. The good news is that detox programs get easier after the initial shock. "What was strange was that there was no hunger at all," says Kurt Thompson, a Seoul-based marketing-research manager, of his weight-loss vacation at the Farm?a health retreat in the Philippines' lush Batangas province. The self-confessed "300-pound man mountain" shed 12 pounds (5.4 kg) thanks to "green juices and cleansing drinks, along with massages and lots of natural supplements." The absence of temptation was also a big help...
...dieting to her liking. Atkins? "For Europeans, it's gross. They can't eat like that. After a few days of not eating fruits and vegetables and not drinking wine or eating pasta ... it's so foreign to us. So unbalanced." But she's not any fonder of other weight-loss regimens. "Basically, diets don't work," she insists. "If they worked, everyone would be thin and healthy...
...years, the U.S. government ruled that most weight-loss programs would not be reimbursed by Medicare because obesity was not a medical illness. That policy was reversed last week. The Department of Health and Human Services dropped language that prevented doctors from billing Medicare for obesity treatments. That doesn't mean that Medicare recipients can now get their stomachs stapled. Reimbursement decisions must be based on "medical science." Medicare may review the evidence on obesity surgery as soon as this fall...
...David Bjerklie and Michael Lemonick began exploring the evolutionary roots of our appetite for sweets and fatty foods. Christine Gorman tracked down members of the National Weight Control Registry--people who have lost 30 lbs. or more and kept it off for at least a year--to discover the secrets of their success. Alice Park traveled to Pfizer's obesity-research lab in Groton, Conn., to see how new weight-loss drugs are researched and developed. Sora Song pored over dozens of competing diet books, while business writer Daniel Kadlec sampled the fare at Ruby Tuesday, the first restaurant chain...
...trivial answer is that we eat too much high-calorie food and don't burn it off with enough exercise. If only we could change those habits, the problem would go away. But clearly it isn't that easy. Americans pour scores of billions of dollars every year into weight-loss products and health-club memberships and liposuction and gastric bypass operations--100,000 of the latter last year alone. Food and drug companies spend even more trying to find a magic food or drug that will melt the pounds away. Yet the nation's collective waistline just keeps growing...