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Article: OSWEGO PROF'S BOOK TACKLES THE ISSUE OF FAT; THE 300-SOMETHING-POUND AUTHOR GIVES THE SKINNY ON BEING OVERWEIGHT.(CNY)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2005
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Byline: Laura T. Ryan Staff writer
As a baby, skinny little Ira Sukrungruang wouldn't eat a thing.
At least, not until his Thai mother offered him rice with fish sauce.
Then he couldn't stop eating.
"And I grew and grew and grew," says Sukrungruang, now 28 and an assistant professor of English at the State University College at Oswego. "But it was never fat. At least I didn't say I was fat. I was big-boned. Pudgy. Chubby. Above average."
His parents, both of whom hail from Thailand and moved to Chicago in the 1960s, are "so small," Sukrungruang says. By contrast, their only child stands 6-foot-1 and weighs "300-something."
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