Word: overweighting
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...many at this time." First comes heredity: granted that "You are 'stuck' with your heredity," the group contends that if either a parent or grandparent died prematurely of arterial disease, "it is most important that you minimize the effect of the other factors." The others: being overweight by ten pounds or more, a high level of cholesterol in the blood, high blood pressure, smoking too much. For all these, the physicians' advice was the same: "See your physician...
Everyone was aware of the burdens a septuagenarian was shouldering. The Pope's doctor, Paolo Venchierutti, has announced that the somewhat overweight Pontiff (205 Ibs.) "has a robust stamina unweakened by the years." He generally sleeps no more than six hours a night-retiring at 10 and rising at 4. But however strong his body and short his sleep, the problems that confront his reign are a formidable legacy...
...collected in Haiti by Dr. Vergniaud Péan. Why? Their diets did not differ significantly except in two respects: the Haitians got far less to eat, and as many as 42% in the poorer classes were underweight, while as many as 30% of better-fixed Charleston Negroes were overweight; also, the Haitians had practically no cholesterol in their diet, while the South Carolinians had six to 20 times as much (mostly from eggs...
...sticks to guerrilla tactics and suffers when it does not. Sleeping by day and fighting by night, it moves in 40-man combat groups, attacks only when it has a French unit at a disadvantage, withdraws in the face of any major French force. Result is that although the overweight French army has won some local successes-notably the stamping out of terrorism in the casbah of Algiers by General Jacques Massu's hardened paratroopers-most of its time is spent in vain pursuit of a will-o'-the-wisp opponent...
...blind, who no longer have to replace dogs as often. Dr. Morris' line of prescription foods now sustains almost 50,000 dogs, extends their lives as much as six years. Competitors have sprung up, all selling foods specifically designed for dogs suffering many afflictions of civilization. For overweight dogs Atlas Canine Products, Inc. (a Laddie Boy affiliate) offers Obesodiet, which cuts calories per meal to a Spartan 300. Atlas also has Geriodiet for older dogs, Nephrodiet for kidney sufferers, Protodiet for protein-hungry mothers...