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...Percentage of Americans overweight or obese...
...WUSHAN GODDESS ENTERTAINMENT CITY. Gambling is illegal in China, but this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards. "I had to put in a lot of money to get this," he says, watching the flow of chips across the dice table, "mostly...
...other recent releases like Alan Rudolph's Afterglow and the Wachowski Brothers' Bound, is perhaps the last cultural realm where working as a plumber guarantees for an individual immediate and intense sexual gratification; this unfailing phenomenon is even more surprising when held against sitcom plumbers, who mostly appear as overweight white guys who score cheap laughs when their butts poke out from the waistlines of their jeans...
Lamb's new book is also a departure from She's Come Undone, an offbeat story of an overweight girl named Dolores. Ambitious and sprawling, I Know This Much Is True is a monster of a tale about twin brothers, one schizophrenic and one healthy, that covers a Forrest Gump-like time span and touches on issues ranging from Native American rights to child pornography. Lamb's ending is a triumph of simple beauty; unfortunately, many readers simply will not get that...
Moore, aware of increased risk of postmenopausal heart disease, would worry if a patient was overweight. Excess body fat tends to negate estrogen's protective effect on the heart. She would point out that foods rich in folate, beta carotene and vitamins A, B6, C and E offer protection against heart disease and cancer. Eating a balanced diet consisting of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, protein sources such as poultry and fish, along with nuts and olive, peanut and canola oils can supply these nutrients...