Word: morbidly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...different than our school,” said Muharrar. “And though labeling wasn’t the only cause of the problem, I couldn’t help thinking about how it must have contributed.” But Muharrar can be serious about less morbid subjects, too. “She says things like ‘lady parts’ in all seriousness,” wrote her roommate, Amara G. Madu ’06, in an e-mail. “You have to love that...
Watch your weight. Morbid obesity, sometimes defined as being more than 100 lbs. above your "normal" weight, is incompatible with healthy aging because it increases the risk of a number of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis. Ordinary obesity--weighing at least 20% more than you should--correlates with milder forms of these diseases as well as with increased incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer and cancer of the uterus, colon, kidney and esophagus. But what is normal, and how much should you weigh...
...quite possible that our criteria for obesity and our thinking about its medical implications have been warped by fashion. We all know morbid obesity when we see it; clearly, it interferes with activities of daily living and makes people unhappy and unhealthy. But being too lean may also compromise health and successful aging. I believe that those who are somewhat overweight but fit in middle age may enjoy a healthier and longer old age than those who are lean...
...fact, no parallel to the anguish now being endured by America's gay men, who live in every town and city in the U.S. and total perhaps 12 million, as many as the combined population of all eight Mountain States. The desperation may be best reflected by a morbid joke that is being repeated in San Francisco: A son walks up to his mother and says, "Mom, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that I'm gay." Distraught, the mother asks for the good news. He answers: "I'm also dying...
...Roosevelt was in labor more than 24 hours before her 10-lb. son Franklin was born, blue and breathless. The doctor urged that she avoid further pregnancies, which she may have done by totally abstaining from sex. Her dedication to young Franklin was of an intensity bordering on the morbid. She kept him in girlish skirts and long blond curls until he was nearly six. Every hour of his day followed a strict schedule: up at 7, breakfast at 8, lessons from 9 to noon...