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How some people manage to stay thin in a fat, fat world
September 27th, 2004
At 43, Anita Sanders is a sylph who can eat as much as she likes without having to exercise like a fiend. "I can't say I work hard on trying to stay slim," she admits, adding that she is passionate about food. She puts her slimness down to lucky genes and nervous energy. "I eat whatever I want but I feel full quite quickly, and I'm not one of those people who runs after the guy carrying the canape tray as he passes by." Sanders is in a shrinking minority of people who follow a Western lifestyle. The norm is to be fat. In most of Western Europe, easily more than half the adults are overweight, and in the United States two-thirds...
Source: Diabetes Week (2004-09-27)
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