Word: fatted
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...plays an importatnt role in determining a person's ideal weight, which remains more or less constant throughout adult life. Whenever a person loses weight, a portion of the brain called the hypothalamus responds by increasing the appetite and slowing the metabolism so that the body can store more fat. By contrast, when a person gains weight, the hypothalamus decreasses appetite and speeds metabolism. However, the brain does not seem to work as hard to ward off weight gain as it does to combat weight loss; overeating can overload the system. Moreover, the discovery of an obesity gene suggests that...
...vast majority of soldiers agree that the ban should remain in place. Once the views of military personnel are considered, the contention that the ban on homosexuals is discriminatory becomes ridiculous. Under such reasoning the same argument could be made against the military's ban on the short, fat and mentally retarded. If such an argument were to be taken to its extreme, we would have to consider the Air Force discriminatory for not allowing blind people to fly airplanes...
...compulsive piggies. At least this seems to be the going explanation for America's latest leap into pandemic obesity -- 33% of U.S. adults 20 years of age or older are estimated to be overweight. It almost doesn't matter what we eat, the obesity experts say. Give us low-fat foodstuffs, and we'll binge on them in megacalorie doses; turn your back for a moment, and we'll be scarfing down a Mallomar or whatever other substance comes to hand. What we really need is love, according to the mass-neurosis theory -- or community or respect -- and what...
...food revolution as in everything else, the poor are getting stuck with the greasy end of the stick. The affluent like to gorge on the kinds of high-fiber, heart-smart foods that were once relegated to the global peasantry: polenta, lentils, kale, bulgur wheat. Meanwhile, the fat-filled, heart-dumb foods once favored by kings and courtiers have been sedimenting down the socioeconomic scale. And, oh, the joys of nouveau low-income food, in its ever more wanton and promiscuous forms -- fries topped with melted cheese spread, nachos topped with everything, burritos buried in sour cream and guacamole...
Diarrhea, one of the symptoms caused by the Norwalk agent, "is associated with the transient malabsorption of D-xylose and fat," according to the text. After the damage of the Norwalk agent, it may take two weeks for the absorption levels in the body to return to normal...