Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Exercise itself has come under attack. Penn's Stunkard suspects that the fitness movement was too narrowly focused, hitting mostly the upper and upper- middle classes and missing the rest of the population. Kathy Smith, a Hollywood fitness expert, thinks aerobics and weight lifting scared a lot of people away. "The exercise message of the 1980s was too strong, too high impact," says Smith. "We ended up with a select group of elite exercisers with hard bodies." The proper message, most health experts now agree, is to set aside time for regular, moderate exercise -- bicycling, climbing steps, walking briskly...
...have contributed to the bulging of America. Millions of people have given up smoking, driving annual per capita cigarette consumption by adults from its peak of 4,345 in 1963 to 2,493 last year, according to the American Health Foundation. And when people quit smoking, they usually gain weight -- 4 to 6 lbs. on average. But health officials are quick to point out that while those extra pounds may harm your health, cigarettes are even more damaging. Most doctors advise patients that a bit of additional weight is a small price to pay for kicking the smoking habit...
...does Laura Eljaiek, program director for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, a lobby group that fights weight discrimination. "Fat is a natural state for most women," says Eljaiek. "We feel people should accept their weight without shame or denial...
There is some truth to what NAAFA teaches. And it is certainly unfortunate that some teenage girls have taken to binging and purging and starving themselves to keep their weight in check. But health officials warn that drifting into obesity may be just as dangerous in the long run. The growing prevalence of both extremes suggests America is struggling with something akin to a national eating disorder. "The society is dysfunctional," says Robin Wes, founder of the Little Gym fitness centers for children. "We are eating out of whack...
...that Murray threw his Curve, Princeton University Press put out The History and Geography of Human Genes by population geneticists Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza. Not only is the tome physically hefty (1,000 pages, 7 1/2 lbs.), but the evidence it contains may carry enough weight to flatten Murray's thesis once...