CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on Thanksgiving weight gain in the news
Nov 27, 2007
This shouldn't come as a surprise: Thanksgiving is not the green light to a six-week indulgence that precedes the waddle back to the gym Jan. 2...The holiday season that starts with Thanksgiving (or even Halloween) and ends with New Year's is a slippery slope, said Barry Popkin, who directs the University of North Carolina Interdisciplinary Obesity Center.To read the entire article ("Work
off those holiday calories fast," The Associated Press,
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/23/tgiving.indulge.ap/
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