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Article: Could 100 fewer calories a day _ a cookie's worth _ hold the line on weight?
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 7, 2003
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
Could eating a mere 100 fewer calories a day improve Americans' health
by fighting the weight creep that adds up to, on average, 2 pounds
(1 kilogram) a year?
That's the argument of a well-known obesity researcher. A few pounds
(kilograms) each year eventually means big trouble, says Dr. James
Hill of the University of Colorado. He says fending off those pounds
simply by cutting back on a cookie or taking three fewer bites of
a fast-food hamburger each day may be easier than losing weight later.
Hill acknowledges he has not proved yet that such a simple step works.
But scientists are searching for different approaches to what is fast
becoming a ...