The consensus from the meeting was that Americans are too fat. Exercise is good and added sugars and refined carbohydrates, like white bread, are not. We've gone to all the extremes now. Maybe somewhere in between is where we need to go. Diets can reduce weight, but the question is whether people can keep it off, said Ayoob, a nutritionist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Big changes are temporary changes.
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