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...guilt snacks has direct links to the efforts of Dr. Robert Atkins, whose get-thin-quick regimen became famous in the '70s for letting dieters have their steak and eat it too. Atkins controverted conventional dietary wisdom by asserting that eating fatty foods like bacon wasn't what caused weight gain. The real culprit, he said, was carbohydrates--the sugar and starch that are especially abundant in junk food. An estimated 25 million dieters have tried to follow his edict that if deprived of carbs as a source of energy, the body will burn fat. Although doctors and dietitians dismissed...
Experimentation sometimes produces disasters, like the chocolate-and cinnamon-flavored fries introduced and quickly shelved by Heinz last year. But for food purveyors, taking risks has become essential as weight-conscious and fry-fatigued consumers abandon the deep-fried spud. Americans ordered 900 million fewer servings of fries over the 12 months ending in May, a sharp 10% drop compared with the previous year, according to research to be published in October by the NPD Group, a market-research firm that has been charting American eating patterns for 18 years. That's a lot of taters, and it represents...
...pediatricians say they are determined to do something about it--the epidemic of childhood obesity, that is. In a no-nonsense policy statement devoted to the growing problem, the American Academy of Pediatrics has called for its members to go beyond their routine tracking of height and weight. Pediatricians are being urged to identify children most at risk for obesity (taking into account birth weight, family history, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors), then carefully track their body mass index--a ratio of weight to height--and watch for significant changes from year to year. Early intervention is key: University...
...most common complaints were of parents' overstepping their boundaries, like a mother asking her daughter about things that were none of her business or a dad demanding that his busy son spend more time with him. Many complained about parents who harped on [the adult child's] weight...
Epps was unafraid to be an outspoken advocate of his policy stances, often throwing his weight behind projects opposed by Lewis and publicly disagreeing with his boss about the nature and aim of Harvard’s undergraduate education. He prided himself on independent thought...