In case you missed it: dieting, candidates on healthcare, Susanna Burgett

In the Sunday Globe:

The number of people on a diet - 26 percent of all women in the United States and 16 percent of men for the year ending February 2008 - is the lowest it's been in more than two decades, according to a soon-to-be-released survey.

"On few issues do Barack Obama and John McCain diverge as dramatically as they do on healthcare. Both say they want to reduce costs and expand coverage to the 47 million uninsured," a Globe editorial says. "But while Obama wants to build on the existing employer-based system with new coverage plans for families and businesses, McCain aims to move the country away from work-based insurance and toward a system in which all Americans cut their own deals with private insurers."

In Saturday's Globe:

Diagnosed 14 years ago with breast cancer, which metastasized 11 years ago, Susanna K. Burgett brought a determined strength to living much longer than most would have projected. To say thanks to those whose work at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center guided her along the rocky path of illness, Ms. Burgett helped launch the concierge desk in the waiting area on the ninth floor of the hospital's Shapiro Building. Ms. Burgett, a lawyer who retired several years ago to concentrate on her treatment, died Sept. 4 at Tippett Home in Needham. She was 47 and had lived in Medfield.