Word: overweighting
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...friend told her about an experimental diet drug being tested at nearby Baylor University, and Smith signed up. For two years, she and thousands of other overweight patients maintained a low-fat diet, exercised--and swallowed a medication called orlistat three times a day. "My clothes started fitting a lot looser after a month," she says. Today Smith is down to 150 lbs., her prepregnancy weight. Not only that, but she's maintaining the loss and hopes to drop even more...
...HEAVY Being overweight when you're over 65 may not be so bad after all, according to a German report that analyzed data on 6,000 men and women. Obese young and middle-aged folks have a greater risk of dying than the fit, but the danger seems to diminish as they grow older. Researchers even suggest that most adults can safely gain 10 lbs. every decade without cutting their life short...
...Paunchy and with a graying beard, he is not quite the image of a NASA poster boy. But Energiya claims he's got the right stuff, that he's fit to fly and is a licensed pilot. Llewellyn, however, conceded to the Moscow Times that he's 112 lbs. overweight and, though he was certified to pilot a Cessna in 1976, has not flown a plane in 19 years. Still, Energiya says if Llewellyn can raise $100 million, he gets a week of room and board on Mir this August...
...pediatricians should not automatically conclude that overweight asthmatics can be cured simply by losing weight, Camargo said...
Tricia M. Michels '00, a co-director of the Fitness and Nutrition Program--which falls under the auspices of Project Health, a Phillips Brooks House program--said only some of the nine 9- to 11-year-old overweight girls she mentors have asthmatic problems...