Word: overweighting
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...Wolf led a team of cardiologists into the little Pennsylvania town of Roseto, where 95% of the 1,600 inhabitants are descended from a single group of immigrants from Italy. They eat heavily, including plenty of saturated fat, and drink a lot of wine. Nearly all of them are overweight. But to their surprise the doctors found that in seven years no Roseto men under 47 died of heart attacks, and in later life their rate was barely half that in neighboring towns. Perhaps, the investigators say, the explanation is that these people are "gay, boisterous and unpretentious, simple, warm...
Meanwhile, back in the studio kitchen, Mrs. Child, her husband, the cameramen, the director, crew and two volunteer dishwashers sit down to eat the subject matter. Is she overweight? No, magically, she is slender as a scallion...
Trying to explain the line's failure, Harmon blamed "calorie conscious Cliffies" as the primary cause. Referring to a poll taken last spring at Radcliffe, in which Cliffies were asked to characterise themselves as "overweight," "under-weight," or "just right," he commented, "the fact that no Cliffes said they were underweight was a statistic we should have noted earlier...
...Last year I stopped smoking. After six months, I wound up an overweight nervous wreck, suffering from compulsive eating habits, extreme tension, unexplained chest cramps, a sudden rush of gum and teeth problems, and facing a costly replacement in clothing. Two months ago, I resumed smoking and the chest and dental problems promptly vanished, I am losing the excess poundage, eat normally, and most of the tension has departed...
...hasn't varied much since. She sings (sometimes with a partner), plays a banjo at breathtaking speed, and tells ad-lib stories. Between engagements, she has an oddly energetic pastime for a 15-stone woman who coyly says "I'm about ten pounds overweight": she goes off with her musical director and longtime friend Ernest Wampola (a Viennese doctor of music) on camping trips in the bush country of central Africa, where she fishes and photographs game. She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia...