What, Me Avoirdupois? The Newly Overweight Digest the Heavy News From: The Washington Post | Date: June 5, 1998| Author: Ann Gerhart | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Once, you pinched an inch, grabbed your flab, saw if a pencil could be held in place by your sagging haunches, shrugged and bought the darned Dockers.

No more. Those old ways of calculating how fat was too fat are gone, helpfully replaced by scientific fretters at the National Institutes of Health. Their new guidelines declare that 29 million of us were healthy on the weekend, but woke up yesterday frankly fat, joining the 68 million American adults who were already USDA-qual...

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