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As Amber Dunlap stood in her Memphis, Tennessee, backyard, holding her new baby girl, she knew she should be happy. But she wasn't. Such a moment is normally joyful, but when Dunlap saw her reflection in a glass door, her mood changed: She barely recognized the overweight woman she saw.
"With my schedule--working two jobs, going to school, going through a divorce and being a single mom-I had good excuses not to exercise or eat well," she told me. Yet for her daughter's future, Amber knew she had to lose weight.
She's not alone--some 80 percent of Americans are overweight. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that more than 300,000 ...