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...Metabolism begins to slow at around age 25. For each decade thereafter, the number of calories required to maintain one's weight drops by at least 2%. Muscle mass gradually shrinks. As a result, people tend to get fatter. Kidneys may lose up to 50% of their efficiency between ages 30 and 80. Some of the liver's functions may decline. Thus alcohol remains in the body longer. So do drugs, a fact doctors are beginning to consider in deciding on dosages for older patients...
...find anything to wear, except perhaps in the U.S., where he goes to Ralph Lauren, Paul Stuart and Brooks Bros. In his reed-thin youth he wore -- guess what? -- his grandfather's suits. "They were well tailored, with beautiful shapes, materials and colors. But then ((sheepish smile)) I grew fatter...
...look of concern crossed Mike's visage. "Tell me, Rutger. Is it true that American youth are fatter than ever...
Poor children are thinner than middle-class youngsters, although the poor are quickly narrowing the weight gap. Children and teen-agers also tend to be fatter in the winter than in the warmer months...
Like most people, highly placed public servants yearn for fatter paychecks. Unlike most people, some of those public servants -- namely, Congressmen -- are in a position to vote raises for themselves. Or cuts. In the Depression year of 1932, a politically prudent concern for seemliness prompted Congress to slash its salaries 10%. That is not likely to happen in 1987. But as members of the 100th Congress weigh the very real financial needs of officials in all branches of Government, including themselves, they are painfully aware of how public sentiment is running. During a call-in poll last month, ABC television...