Wendy Piper, Keeping Fit, Sun Media (May 11, 2006)

You wouldn’t know it by looking at her, but Wendy Piper has a good excuse to gain weight. The 40-year-old Edmontonian, who weighs a lean 115 pounds at five-foot-two, suffers from hypothyroidism. In other words, she has a sluggish thyroid – the gland at the base of the neck that regulates a person’s metabolism.