Word: flabbing
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...outlook is positive so far with Weidle responding the best to Turner's exhortations. He has made dramatic improvements after slimming down from over 300 pounds of flab to a "svelte...
...SWITCH In the country's ongoing battle with blubber, researchers have discovered that a protein called Wnt-10b controls fat formation. Wnt-10b inhibited fat precursor cells in mice from becoming full-fledged fat, while, remarkably, cutting off Wnt-10b turned even premuscle cells into flab. Humans also produce Wnt-10b, so further study into what regulates the protein may someday lead to the development of long-awaited antiobesity drugs...
...gain as much as we think in winter, we routinely neglect to take off our fresh fat in spring. We allow the pounds to accumulate year after year in tiny increments we hardly notice--until we try to stuff ourselves into our old jeans. Call it stealth flab. Indeed, the massive once-a-decade National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey concurs. It shows that over a 10-year period, the average American can expect to gain...
They're talking about flab again. It's that time of year. In January the papers are always full of exercise-equipment ads and articles on how much more our health-care system costs because of widespread obesity. The morning television shows like to kick off the new year with a series on some miracle diet that forbids fruits and vegetables but allows whale blubber in any amount. My old Army friend Charlie says he always spends the first half of January staring at his credit-card bill and his stomach, wondering whether he really has to do anything about...
...Change the silhouette. Perhaps the most bemoaned of all techniques, this involves adding background over legs and arms, thus cutting off some of the flab and leaving a smooth, sexy curve...