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His doctor pleads with "King Momo" to lose weight.
By J.A. Getzlaff
February 11, 2000
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Americans still don't understand how the French eat whatever they want and live to tell about it.
By Laura Fraser
February 4, 2000
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Food is unhealthy only if you stress over it.
By Steven A. Shaw
December 24, 1999
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Will the free market reward art and education? Plus: Gauging "the Philadelphia effect"; Americans are fat because we're lazy and eat bad food.
Letters to the Editor
November 17, 1999
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Is it better to be food-obsessed than fat and happy? Plus: Trolling for errors in "Dutch"; hip-hop merits not less scrutiny, but greater intellectual rigor.
Letters to the Editor
November 10, 1999
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The Fat Guy munches on doughnuts while figuring out whether he is fat or obese.
By Steven A. Shaw
November 10, 1999
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Readers bust a gut on fat guy story; it's time to give up on baseball; sick of hearing about Harmony Korine's shockfest.
Letters to the Editor
October 22, 1999
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If I ate less, I'd lose weight. But I don't, because I love food.
By Steven A. Shaw
October 15, 1999
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One woman's olestra saga can be a lesson for us all.
By Liz Krieger
August 16, 1999
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The diet pill Xenical reduces fat absorption, but may cause unpleasant side effects.
By Sharon Lerner
June 30, 1999
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A new member of the big, comfy underpants set ponders why women are
ostracized for 'letting themselves go.
By Anne Lamott
March 4, 1999
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Can a fat teenager find happiness? Cherie Bennett, author of the young adult novel "Life In the Fat Lane," talks about binge-and-barf clubs, Madeleine Albright's thighs
and why well-meaning mothers often make things worse.
By Leora Tanenbaum
March 11, 1998
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the man-eating Anna plays Nigel like a fiddle as the saga of Kath
and Nigel continues.
By Courtney Weaver
March 4, 1998
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Stop the insanity, get out of the zone. And don't under any circumstances tell yourself it's ok to be obese.
By Lori Leibovich
September 12, 1997
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Sara Kelly reviews "Losing It: America's Obsession with Weight
and the Industry that Feeds on It" by Laura Fraser.
By Sara Kelly
January 16, 1997