Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Frisch, the delay occurs because the brain regulates the onset of menarche based on a woman's amount of body fat...
Lean women, including many athletes, have very little body fat, so a part of the brain called the hypothalamus represses the woman's menstrual cycle by keeping estrogen levels...
...woman's fat level drops below 22 percent of total body weight, the brain gets fooled into thinking the woman has not reached puberty and shuts off her cycle...
...fat is in the genes, what the hell -- you done with those fries...
...trouble communicating with his young son -- until, on Christmas Eve, Santa falls off his roof, and Scott is pressed into finishing the gift-delivery chores. It turns out he is expected to give up his former identity and become Santa for good; over the next few months, he grows fat and acquires white whiskers and white hair. (Is this a Christmas fantasy or a horror film?) Scott eventually reconciles to the idea of spending his declining years at the North Pole, winning his son's love in the process. "Pretty cool, eh?" he tells his ex-wife before catching...