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The Scale Lies the Morning After Thanksgiving
The holiday weight warning arrives on schedule every year. Five pounds, maybe ten, somewhere between the first slice of pie and the last New Year's cocktail. The burpee math for a dinner roll. The ring-light guy prescribing fasted cardio on Thanksgiving morning.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health tested that belief by weighing 195 adults from fall through early March. The average gain between Thanksgiving and New Year's was under a pound. Fewer than one in ten people gained five or more. And people guessed they had gained about three pounds more than they actually had. The catch…
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