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CAMPOS: What is 'normal' weight? : Columns & Blogs : The Rocky Mountain News

What is Oprah Winfrey's "normal" weight? This question springs to mind in the wake of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's announcement that only about 30 percent of the nation's adult population is currently at what the CDC defines as a normal weight....

Celebrate Healthy Weight Week with Healthy Weight Network

Annual Healthy Weight Week is a time to celebrate healthy living habits that last a lifetime and prevent eating and weight problems.

Dieting now makes you gain weight?

If it's January, then it must be time to diet, right? You've spent the past month at the buffet trough. Now every time you turn on the TV news you're seeing that same person with a three-story midsection jiggling past, head discreetly out of the picture, an illustration of that same statistic: 63 percent of us reside in the fatosphere.

But maybe we're getting the wrong message here. Perhaps 2009 should be the Year of the Un-Diet. What if we finally settled what one researcher calls "the war with our bodies"?

"Dieting is the worst thing people can do if they're interested in weight control," said Linda Bacon, a nutrition professor and clinical psychotherapist in the East Bay whose book, "Health at Every Size," was published in November (BenBella Books). "Dieting seems the fastest way to gain weight."

Health At Every Size: New Hope for Obese Americans?

Healthy at every size?

What a concept!

The "Every Size" strategy, a health-centered rather than weight-centered program, may help chronic dieters reshape their thinking, shed unhealthy habits, adopt new patterns of eating, become more physically active, and increase their self-esteem.