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...Year's Eve, for instance, some 350 Coloradans caught a lift with NightRiders, a designated-driver service that safely deposits the inebriated--along with their cars--back home after a big night out. The company, like others popping up across the country, relies on collapsible scooters small enough to fit into a backseat or trunk to get its employees from one customer pickup to the next. CityScoot in Louisville, Ky., offers prepaid cards and a catchy phone number (56-NO-DUI). Home James, a ritzy service in Los Angeles that features drivers in mod suits with fake British accents...
...this research to disprove the very misleading hypothesis that if you’re fit, you don’t need to worry about extra weight,” Hu says. “We found that even a modest weight gain during adulthood, independent of physical activity, is associated with a higher risk of death...
According to Barbara Moore, president and CEO of Shape Up America!, a nonprofit obesity-awareness organization, exercise is the only long-term way to safely lose weight and stay fit...
...similar 1999 study led by Chong-Do Lee, then at West Texas A&M University, had tracked 22,000 men over an average of 8 years and concluded that a high body-mass index conveyed no extra risk in the most fit people...
Critics like Church also say that stigmatizing obese people makes the public health problem worse. “Most obese individuals who try and lose weight are going to fail, and when that happens they tend to give up even trying to be fit,” he said. His research suggests that fitness is more important than fatness in minimizing risk, and that up to 40 percent of obese individuals are “fit...