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Facts about Fat
To overcome an unhealthy obsession with your hips and thighs, focus on all the things they do for you, Bulik says. Exercise that tones and strengthens your lower body -- whether it's weight training, hiking or cycling -- can also help improve your relationship with your hips and thighs. By helping you shed pounds, a healthy diet will help you feel better about your body too.
Are you destined to be fat?
If fat seems to cling to your body, you may wonder if you can do anything to alter your destiny. "For the average person, [genetic influence] is in the 60-80 percent range," explains Philip A. Wood, D.V.M., Ph.D., director of the division of genomics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the author of How Fat Works (Harvard University Press, 2006). Although this is significant enough to suggest that Rosie O'Donnell is never going to be as thin as, say, Courteney Cox, it also means that most of us can avoid obesity with a combination of healthy eating and exercise habits.
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