"With low-fat diets, we see a lot of skinny fat, where they get lean, but their body fat goes up because they're losing muscle, " Jampolis said.

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Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny.

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And if parents were concerned about a child's weight at all, they tended to think they were too skinny, not too fat.

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The economy actually gets worse, as higher prices sit on family budgets like a fat cowboy on a skinny horse.

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Most business books are big fat bores, except for those that are skinny bores--those trite little tomes involving whales and cheese and lessons learned from kindergarten.

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