weight gain during stress
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Weight gain during the holidays is a fat, ugly myth. Very few people really gain as much as five pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's.
The weight gain comes after the holidays, when people don't drop that one little pound.
A study of 195 adults showed that -- from late September to early March -- the majority put on 1.06 pounds in six months' time. A year after the study began, 165 of the participants were weighed again. On average, they were each up about 1.36 pounds from their initial weights.
People who were overweight or obese to begin with were more likely to gain five pounds or more during the initial six-month season, according to the study, which appeared in a March 2000 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
"This is a good news/bad news story," study author Jack A...