Word: excessive
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Simple overweight is distinguished medically from gross obesity, a more serious condition that is often more difficult to treat. But even plain excess weight is almost universally believed to contribute to premature heart attacks and to be a prime cause of adult diabetes. Data compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in 1960 showed that more than half of American adults then weighed 10% or more over the ideal for their height?a situation that the new data seem to show has grown even worse. In other words, despite the growing number of joggers, tennis nuts, weight watchers and organic...
...insulating layer of air between them. The buildup occurs when electrons, perhaps carried by falling water droplets, migrate to the bottom of a cloud, giving it a strong negative charge. Because like charges repel, that negative charge drives away electrons in the ground below, leaving it with an excess positive charge. Eventually, the voltage between cloud and ground becomes so great that electrons burst across the insulating air barrier, producing a brilliant flash...
...studio, where most groups hibernate. In some ways, however, the Dead seem stuck in the debris of the late '60s; their music has the raw, unreconstructed sound of earlier groups, and they retain their oft-publicized position as the high priests of acid. Despite the death by excess in everything, particularly alcohol, of the immortal Pigpen (Ron McKernan) back in 1973, the Dead roll on, forever, it seems. Garcia (Captain Trips himself and the director of the movie), Lesh, Weir, kreutzman and Hart have played together for so long that they have developed the kind of tightness few groups...
Maybe it is because Congress and the President have not stopped catering to the big bucks of Big Business lobbyists who know the corporate accountability Nader proposes means an end to the excess profits they depend on. We have to remember that Crusader Nader did not kill the corporate giants; he merely pointed them out. We citizens are to blame if there is no followup...
...blood transfusions. But because the body is not easily able to rid itself of the iron added by repeated blood donations, it accumulates to such an extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi. In the course of billions of years, these tiny organisms have evolved complex molecules that gather up iron essential for their survival. The researchers developed similar compounds-chelating agents (from the Greek word for claw)- of their own. Injectable chemicals...