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Researchers Study People Who Lose Weight, Keep It Off.
2001 OCT 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
The city that never sleeps is still snoozing peacefully when John Kubacki trots out his front door for a sunrise run in Central Park.
Across town, Patricia Brawer is already pumping iron with her personal trainer.
Soon Toni Landau will be striding briskly on the treadmill in her bedroom, just like she has 6 days a week for the past 12 years.
There's a name for these people. Dr. James Hill, an obesity expert at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, calls them "successful losers.''
They are people who lost a lot of weight a long time ago and have managed to avoid regaining it. They are remarkably rare in our increasingly oversized nation. And, Hill says, they have a great deal to teach the rest of us about achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.
Obesity has become so common in the United States that it threatens to overtake smoking as public health enemy No. 1. One in four American adults is clinically obese, an increase of 50% over 20 years ago. Almost half of adults are overweight. Between 1980 and 1994, the percentage of obese teen-agers doubled.
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