OBESITY FEATURE
January 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
THERE is a two-word prefix that seems to be coming out of every American food manufacturer's new-product department: Low-Carb.
The US is fighting an obesity problem. A staggering (in some cases - literally) 64 per cent of the population is overweight and the number of people carrying more than 100 pounds over their ideal weight has quadrupled in the last 20 years to one in every hundred. The obvious answer to this problem would be to eat less and exercise more, but in fact many Americans are taking an easier route to their private slimline Idaho; ...
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