CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: Weighty Matters

A pair of in-house physicians covered the increased incidence of uncontrolled high blood pressure among women. CBS' Jon LaPook compared it with an improvement in the problem for men over the past 20 years. NBC's Nancy Snyderman checked the map: "If you look at the District of Columbia and the Deep South, that is where women are really affected." On ABC's A Closer Look, John McKenzie (embargoed link) examined the relationship between obesity and artificial sweeteners. Almost 200m people nationwide eat sugarfree food or drink diet sodas, yet non-calorie sweeteners may be a factor in people gaining weight rather than taking it off, McKenzie speculated: when food tastes sweet, the body expects to consume extra calories; when the calories do not arrive, the body demands more food to make up for the shortfall.

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