And while we're on the topic of weight loss and health, here's strange news:

U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high — 77.6 years — and
deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop, the government
reported Thursday.

Still, the march of medical progress has taken a worrisome turn: Half
of Americans in the 55-to-64 age group — including the oldest of the baby
boomers — have high blood pressure, and two in five are obese. That means they
are in worse shape in some respects than Americans born a decade earlier were
when they were that age.

So does this mean that the baby boomers are going to start croaking en masse? Looks like President Bush can stop losing sleep over the future of social security!