Word: overweighted
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...other axiom 300 proved to Hollywood is one the comics industry has known for decades: "The audience for comic-book movies is overweight guys in their mid-30s," says director, comic-book-store owner and overweight guy in his late 30s Kevin Smith. Actually, the average age of a comic-book buyer is 23, but Smith's point--that there are fans aplenty to support R-rated comics franchises--has been digested. Even PG-13 comic-book movies are maturing. Batman keeps getting darker scripts, like Nolan's The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger (in his haunting...
...similar refocusing on fitness over fashion pages can pay other dividends for kids. Difficult as it is to hear that your child is overweight, placing a child on an enforced diet may do more long-term harm than good. Doctors have yet to find a weight-loss program that has proved universally effective and safe, especially for children. More often, dieters will lose weight in the short run only to regain it. Research suggests that the yo-yo cycle can lead to loss in bone density and lean muscle mass, organs and bones, jeopardizing overall health. In fact, at least...
...similar situations have conflicted. Since the 1970s, doctors at the nonprofit Cooper Institute in Dallas have gathered data from more than 100,000 patients who have been weighed, measured and made to run on treadmills while their vital signs are monitored. "We've long concluded that people who are overweight and active can be healthier than those who are thin but sedentary," says Dr. Kenneth Cooper, the institute's director. "There's no reason to believe that conclusion doesn't apply to our children...
...overweight kids stay healthy with exercise alone as they age? The jury's still out. For adults, Cooper's theory has recently been challenged. A Harvard-affiliated study released in April showed that being active can lower but does not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women. Assessing nearly 39,000 middle-aged women over a period of 11 years, researchers determined that the odds for developing heart disease were 54% higher in overweight active women and 87% higher in obese active women compared with normal-weight active women. Women who were normal weight but inactive faced only...
...nearly always bloom into obese adults. CDC epidemiologist David Freedman evaluated 30-plus years of data and found that of the children who technically qualified as obese, two-thirds grew up to be very obese adults. "Even down to the youngest ages that I've worked with, age 5, overweight kids have maybe a tenfold increased risk of becoming obese adults," Freedman says...