Trimming (a Little) Fat

The Government Printing Office boasts that it helped employees in a Nevada school district lose half a ton in just a month. The Washoe County residents used an HHS dietary guide produced by GPO -- A Healthier You: Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans -- for a month and shed a collective 1,300 pounds. Before rushing out to buy the book, would-be dieters might want to do some mental calisthenics. Those 1,300 pounds, divided over 2,800 employees and their families, amounts to an average weight loss of less than half a pound.--Jenny Mandel