Word: overweighting
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...same time the most obsessed with slimness. Some 58 million citizens, nearly a fourth of the nation's population, are clinically obese--at least 20% above their ideal body weight. For a 5-ft. 3-in. woman, that's 162 lbs. or more. Millions more are significantly overweight. All told, Americans are carrying around tons of excess fat, and we are desperate to lose...
...merely overweight, though, Redux probably poses an unacceptable danger. While the drug is intended to be taken only by the clinically obese for a limited time, in conjunction with an ongoing diet and exercise program, there is no guarantee that this scenario will be followed. Predicts David Nichols, a Purdue University pharmacologist: "This drug will ultimately be overprescribed by every bumpkin doctor who has patients who perceive themselves to be slightly overweight...
Diabetes and hypertension are treated with medication that is essentially lifelong and, in the view that many physicians are coming to accept, this is the model that will be needed for obesity. At the same time, scientists are beginning to unravel the biological basis of overweight. Molecular biologists, for example, have identified five genes in mice that control food metabolism and that, if damaged, can lead to chubby rodents. In humans, physiologists are beginning to track the multiple hormones that conspire to keep fat people fat and thin people thin. And as Redux and fen/phen demonstrate, neurologists are beginning...
...beauty, but I'm not particularly obese--maybe 20 lbs. overweight, most of it centered in my center. I've sweated on a StairMaster, gorged on cabbage soup, crunched ab trainers until my sides ached. Still, nothing suppressed those late-night hunger pangs. Willpower alone couldn't quell my urge for chocolate. I'd feel awful after every falafel, only to return the next week for another...
Every political event has a Craig Livingstone standing somewhere near the stage. He's the overweight advance man who's trying to look like a Secret Service agent--the one conspiring into his cell phone and swaggering through the crowd with beepers and walkie-talkies bristling from his belt. Every campaign needs people like Livingstone; they book the hotels, hire the copy shops, polish off the buffet-table spreads and try to make others at the hotel bar think they were in the room for the big strategy session. If the candidate wins, some land staff jobs with impressive-sounding...