Word: overweighted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Struggling dieters used to be told they were lazy gluttons with no willpower, but researchers have found that being overweight is as much a result of physiology and heredity as of environment and behavior. To win at staying thin, dieters are learning how to vanquish their own bodies. Overeaters have delightfully ingenious ways of fooling themselves. See HEALTH & FITNESS...
Stretch carefully. Limbering up is important for everyone, but overweight exercisers should stay away from stretches that strain the lower back, including that classic from gym class, the toe-touching drill...
...themselves into fads, easy to latch onto and easier to drop. Perhaps the key to the fat-and-fit movement is that there is no one key. In our effort to get healthy and look great, we have created an environment so hostile to the idea of obesity that overweight people have become marginalized, giving up on their well-being and sometimes failing to show up even for such routine tests as Pap smears and mammograms for fear of being hectored about their weight by their doctors...
...this 21-page special report on getting America fit, TIME aims to address that imbalance. Why should we be concerned about fitness? Because as bad as it is to be overweight, it may be just as bad to be inactive. In fact, some health authorities believe it's worse. The health risks of obesity--diabetes, heart attack, high blood pressure and certain cancers, among others--are familiar to most Americans, but physical activity confers its own benefits "above and beyond what it can provide for weight control," says Harold Kohl, lead epidemiologist at the Physical Activity and Health Branch...
...then has obesity hogged the limelight that physical activity also deserves? It's partly because being overweight is a more conspicuous problem. You can see it with your eyes, you can measure it on a scale. Fitness isn't so easy to size up. "Fitness is not a matter of being skinny," says Carlos Crespo, professor of social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo in New York. "It's a matter of being healthy." Experts like Crespo talk about seven components of fitness, a list that varies a bit from study to study but typically goes something like...