I am in the diet-and-exerise camp. The long-term health benefits make even kilt issues trivial (as if anything could be more important than kilts.) If you can keep your waist-line a constant 32 inches, pretty much every system in your body will be less stressed as you age. In particular, you'll make adult-onset diabetes very unlikely, your heart will work better and last longer, and your joints will suffer much less wear than if your grow by the one-pound-a-year that western males average.

To those who say they grow despite diet and excercise, the math is simple: you are still eating & drinking too much, eating and drinking the wrong stuff and/or exercising too little. Period.

My problem is that I still have to lose 33 pounds before I can buy any expensive clothing. I haven't had a french-fry all year, have stopped between-meal snacks, and make sure that I can see 25% of my dinner plate before I eat. Down 7 pounds in 9 weeks. I miss ice-cream so....but I intend to avoid the diabetes that hit my brother last year, and I want these knees to last.