Word: overweighting
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...ailing and overweight, smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, and suffers either from Parkinson's disease or the symptomatically similar aftereffects of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is also believed to have a liver ailment...
...Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just in the month of October). Each is accompanied by a vast retinue of apprentice craftsmen and enough apparatus (hair dryers, electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches, and six varieties of scissors) to run up massive overweight charges. They do not lose money. Kenneth, for instance, charges $100 an hour or $500 a day for a house call. Alexandre gets $11 for just a wash and set, Michel Kazan $6 for snipping a lock...
Charlotte was something of a wallflower until her middle teens. She was overweight and a mite bossy. But as the time for her debut approached, she took herself in hand, dieted, and straightened her posture. The night of the $250,000 extravaganza, dubbed "the party of the century," she was poised and pretty. Anne's debut two years later was the second party of the century and cost just as much...
...Diet," "Airlines Pilot Diet," "Grapefruit Diet," "Low Carbohydrate Diet" and "Drinking Man's Diet," Dr. Hoffman said: "I would like to take this opportunity to specifically disclaim any association with or responsibility by the Mayo Clinic for any of them." The best program for the person who is overweight, he added, is simply to eat less. "There is little if any evidence for the success of any method which does not restrict calorie intake to a level below body energy needs...
...annual congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. At the same time, he emphasized that he is not recommending this "super-surgery as a panacea for the super-obese." To qualify as a candidate for jejuno-colostomy, a patient must be at least 100 lbs. overweight, must have tried and failed with other reducing regimens, and must have some medical problem associated with excess weight-a high blood-cholesterol level, for example, or abnormally high blood pressure...