Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...golf and bowling. Neither, says the religion of wheeze and gasp, will do much for your cardiovascular system. (A golf course is about four miles long, and is negotiated, usually sitting down, at an average of 1 m.p.h. or less; at the professional level, tournaments are won by jiggling fat men. Bowling consists of brief bursts of slow motion separated by rest periods.) And fitness of the heart, lungs and circulatory system, far more than muscular strength and flexibility, is what the new believers are seeking...
...reward their own strengths and forgive their weaknesses. Then, like other converts, they have proclaimed in terms not open to contradiction that their god is the one true god, and that those human tubers who do not forthwith begin regular exercise programs will end up frying in their own fat...
...Like Meza (and enough other middle-aged runners to suggest a personality pattern), Guse says that he was not much of an athlete as a boy. Now he takes faintly malicious pleasure in seeing his old classmates who played on the first string. "Most of them are all fat and flabby...
They do; before 5 a.m., Mercedes and Triumphs purr up to the Aerobics Center, and their drivers begin to circulate around the one-mile track. Each has undergone a stress test and has been weighed submerged in water to determine what proportion of his body weight is fat. Runners punch their times into a computer and receive their points. At the end of each month they get a printout of their progress. Thirty points a week, says Cooper, will maintain condition. Some overachievers earn...
Like their masters, many pets are too fat for their own good. The reason, explained San Antonio Vet Oscar Woytek, is that Americans tend to feed their animals, especially dogs, the same high-quality, cooked table meats with which they gorge themselves. That not only adds beastly pounds, but hurts the animal in other ways. A German shepherd, for instance, can exert so much pressure with his jaws (700 Ibs. per sq. in.) that he can easily splinter a cooked bone into tiny shrapnel-like pieces, some of which may perforate his intestines. It is far better, says A.A.H.A. President...