Word: fat
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Flier had divided the award among three or four researchers, according to Bruce M. Spiegelman, a professor of cell biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who lost two years of funding for research on fat cell regulation to be paid out in $300,000 yearly installments...
...Investigators searched for correlations between women's physical characteristics - including height, weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels - and the number of offspring they produced. According to their findings, it was stout, slightly plump (but not obese) women who tended to have more children - "Women with very low body fat don't ovulate," Stearns explains - as did women with lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Using a sophisticated statistical analysis that controlled for any social or cultural factors that could impact childbearing, researchers determined that these characteristics were passed on genetically from mothers to daughters and granddaughters...
...much sugar will make you fat, but too much artificial sweetener will ... do what exactly? Kill you? Make you thinner? Or have absolutely no effect at all? This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration's decision to ban cyclamate, the first artificial sweetener prohibited in the U.S., and yet scientists still haven't reached a consensus about how safe (or harmful) artificial sweeteners may be. Shouldn't we have figured this out by now? (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
...Fat gap n.--The difference between actual and perceived obesity...
USAGE: "Ten million Brits are unaware they are obese because being fat is now seen as the norm, according to new research. They are suffering from a new phenomenon dubbed the fat gap, which has blurred public perception of what is a healthy weight...