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Meanwhile, our own reporting efforts were getting under way. 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...
Someday marital stress may be as important an indicator of health as cholesterol, weight or blood pressure. But like those other health indicators, a marriage needs constant work if you are going to enjoy the benefits--or so I'm told. What do I know? I'm just getting started...
...proof enough or you missed the ominous warnings from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association, a quick look around the mall, the beach or the crowd at any baseball game will leave no room for doubt: our individual weight problems have become a national crisis...
...only a third what it is today. From 1996 to 2001, 2 million teenagers and young adults joined the ranks of the clinically obese (see "What Is BMI?"). People are clearly worried. A TIME/ABC News poll released this week shows that 58% of Americans would like to lose weight, nearly twice the percentage who felt that way in 1951. But only 27% say they are trying to slim down--and two-thirds of those aren't following any specific plan...
...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...