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Article: `Blizzard Bloat' Blaming One's Weight On the Weather
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- The Washington Post
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- February 16, 1996
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These days you may have noticed a subtle expanding of your
friends' waistlines as well as your own. Well, take consolation in
knowing you are not the only one suffering from . . . "blizzard
bloat," that mysterious creeping up of body fat that has hit a large
number of Washingtonians, according to an informal survey of
frustrated, and slightly fatter colleagues and friends after the
Blizzard(s) of '96.
"I've gained eight pounds since New Year's Day and I feel very
frustrated," says Linda Warner, who experienced blizzard bloat on
top of gaining a few pounds over the holidays. Warner, who works for
the Cooperative Development Foundation in Washington, says she is
looking forward to ...