Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attitude is long overdue. Medical studies and painful individual experiences have shown dieting is too often a Sisyphean nightmare. At least two-thirds of people who shed weight will gain back the lost pounds -- and often more -- in a few years. Only 10% of dieters who lose 25 lbs. or more will remain at their desired weight beyond two years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics...
...effort to achieve ideal thinness is not merely frustrating, new research suggests it is also unhealthy. Dieters who swing through cycles of weight loss and gain may actually be cutting their lives short, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In a study of 3,130 men and women, ages 30 to 62, participating in the landmark Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that so-called yo-yo dieters ran a 70% higher risk of dying from heart disease than did people whose weight stayed fairly steady, even if they were overweight...
...explanation is that fluctuating weight may so stress the body that blood pressure and cholesterol levels become elevated. Men appeared to face greater risk of ill effects than women, possibly because they tend to store excess fat in the abdomen, while women carry it around the hips and thighs. Fat from the belly is more easily mobilized and sent into the bloodstream, where it can clog vital blood vessels. Psychologist Kelly Brownell of Yale University, who directed the study, emphasizes that the findings do not condemn dieting. Rather, they indicate that people need to set realistic goals and be committed...
...been considered a victim of starvation. "More than 70% of women say they feel fat, but only 23% are truly overweight," says Dr. Arnold Andersen, a psychiatrist at the University of Iowa who specializes in eating disorders. Thus about half of female dieters have no medical reason to lose weight; their efforts are purely cosmetic...
...dieting with some kind of a masochistic ritual and cannot feel successful unless they are sacrificing all pleasure in eating," says Karen Miller-Kovach, director of nutrition services for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Except for extremely thin or extremely heavy people, Andersen flatly declares, "the emphasis should be off weight and on health...