"The women in your story are an inspiration to those of us who battle with weight loss every day"
Holly Jennings
Cumming, Ga.
I applaud your story on the women who lost weight the old-fashioned way, with diet and exercise. I need to lose 100 lbs. for health reasons, and your article has motivated me to get movin'. Who knows, this time next year I could be one of your weight-loss stories.
La-Sandra M. Owens
Lakewood, Wash.
As a cardiology nurse, I see many people with medical problems that can be directly attributed to obesity. Hypertension, joint pain and diabetes are taking their toll on younger and younger individuals. Everyone wants a quick fix, but as your six women proved, with determination, the proper diet and, most important, exercise, individuals can attain a healthy lifestyle.
Susie Farley
Waco, Texas
I think it's great that these folks have lost weight and become healthier. I am just wondering why it was necessary for you to emphasize that these people didn't have surgery. The perception that having weight-loss surgery is the easy way out is just plain wrong. It sure helped me and thousands of others.
Erin Korogodsky
San Francisco, Calif.
Having lost 140 lbs. myself and gone from a size 22 to a size 6, I know that with weight loss comes loose skin, saggy breasts and very visible stretch marks. Imagine my surprise to see none of these problems with your subjects.
Mary Carey
Lodi, Calif.
PARIS HILTON
Paris Hilton needs to wake up and realize that as far as the courts are concerned, even hotel heiresses are not above the law. I do give her kudos for the outfit she wore at the courthouse, though. Looking fabulous, Paris.
Lindsay White
New York, N.Y.
So Kathy Hilton thinks the prosecutors of her repeat-offender daughter are "pathetic" and that the money the Hiltons spent should preclude Paris from serving her much-deserved jail time. It's easy to see where her daughter's sense of entitlement originates, and that's what's really pathetic.
Tracy Revoir
Olathe, Kans.
QUEEN ELIZABETH
I enjoyed your article on the Queen's recent visit to the U.S., but I have to object to your calling her clothing "dowdy." The Queen is 81 years old; would you have preferred to see her dressed like Paris Hilton? I think she looks remarkably well put together for a woman of her age, and the fact that she and her husband spend extended periods of time enduring countless speeches and ceremonies is a credit to both of them. Long live the Queen.
Sandra Minihan
Marshall, Va.
HOME ON THE RANGE
Readers lavished praise on Judy and Jerry Horton, the Texas parents of a daughter with Down syndrome, who started the Down Home Ranch, which houses and employs about a dozen adults with DS and other disabilities. "How touching that the Hortons not only make their daughter's life more meaningful, but also the lives of so many other similarly challenged young adults," writes Rebecca Linkhorn of Foster City, Calif. The Hortons say that after the article ran, donations to the Ranch have increased dramatically, and they have received hundreds of e-mails from around the country, roughly half from parents inquiring about summer camp or residency for their children. The Hortons have also been contacted by parents interested in starting similar facilities. Reader Melissa Burke of Portland, Maine, summed it up: "Kudos for such a positive piece. Our daughter with DS, aged 5, has a bright future ahead, thanks to people like the Hortons at the Down Home Ranch."
Corrections
In our May 21 issue, we stated that The Price Is Right was launched in 1972. The 1972 launch was for a new version of the show. The original show, hosted by Bill Cullen, ran from 1956 to 1965. In our May 28 issue, we misspelled actor Robert Iler's last name.
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