Crunch Time

Every January, gazillions of people make a resolution to get off the list of roughly 60 million obese American adults. Others resolve never to join this group whose numbers are unforgivingly tabulated by the National Center for Health Statistics. And so, each New Year comes the annual march of cross-trainer-clad lemmings to a sea of cardiovascular equipment. Luckily for the health club regulars who don’t care for the ensuing overcrowding, America’s annual obsession with health is short-lived, and after a few weeks, the majority of novice exercisers hang up their Nikes and go back to gorging on Big Macs and…