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Article: COLUMN: The skinny on a great fad diet
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- October 28, 2002
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(Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- Nationwide, Americans are
pudgier than ever. Some of the percentages are quite appalling, including
the fact that more than 13 percent of children in this country aged
6 to 19 are overweight.
Granted, the standards for judging a person's healthy weight have
been challenged. Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention use a standard where any person who has a body mass index
greater than 24 is considered to be overweight. As ABCNews.com points
out, these standards classify Mel Gibson as fat, Barry Bonds as overweight,
and both Shaquille O'Neal and the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
fall into the obese ...