Word: overweighting
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...Hirsch, chairman of a 14-member panel of doctors and nutritionists assembled last week by the National Institutes of Health. Hirsch warns that the public tends to regard obesity as "something more involved with appearance than with health." But his panel, after reviewing mountains of research, concluded that being overweight presents "a very pervasive health hazard in many systems of the body...
...life-span, and an unusually high risk of developing respiratory disorders, arthritis and certain types of cancer. A severely obese woman, for example, has five times the normal risk of developing cancer of the uterine lining and a heightened risk of breast and cervical cancers. Men who are significantly overweight have an increased chance of developing malignancies of the colon, rectum and prostate...
...dramatic one, says Dr. George Blackburn, a leading nutritionist at Harvard's Deaconess hospital. "Now we can stop fiddle- faddling around and see this for what it is," he says. "Obesity is a disease." Also significant, says Blackburn, is the panel's concern with lesser degrees of overweight. In the past, he says, warnings have focused mainly on the 11 million Americans who are severely obese...
While the panel made no recommendations for follow-up action by the Government, Hirsch and other obesity experts say they would welcome a federal effort to educate the public about the risks of being overweight, similar perhaps to the Government's ad campaign against smoking. What next? It may not be too farfetched to imagine a warning label on refrigerator doors and candy- bar wrappers: THE SURGEON GENERAL HAS DETERMINED THAT OBESITY IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH...
...Overweight and out of shape, he enters the Pittsburgh Pirates training camp and suits up. Facing a pitching machine, he writes, "I take a practice swing. It's as if I dropped my pants in an old burlesque house--screams of laughter, hoots, catcalls." In the field, "my body already hurts so much I do not even care. I embrace my wounds. I am St. Sebastian." He also answers to another name. A boy holds out an autograph book and later shows his grandfather the fat player's signature. The old man examines it knowledgeably: "Sure, I know...