Word: overweighting
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...statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who has been charting the lives and deaths of his fellow men for 40 years. Dr. Dublin and his assistants told visiting physicians (many of whom were toting too much weight around) what they have learned about health and disease in overweight subjects, and passed out sets of colored charts as reminders. The chief findings...
...Between the ages of 20 and 64, overweight* men have a death rate just 50% higher than their "normal" contemporaries; overweight women pay for their poundage with a death rate 47% higher...
...estimated 25 million Americans are overweight, and 5,000,000 of them are "seriously obese" adults...
...Thyroid extract, still popular with some physicians, should not be; it can do grave harm, and there is no reason for giving it, since an underactive thyroid is very rarely the cause of obesity. Also sharply condemned: other hormones, such as pituitary extract (they have nothing to do with overweight), laxatives and dinitrophenol (it raises the temperature so that "the obese are literally frying in their own fat," and it causes cataracts...
Among all the experts on obesity, only one looked overweight: roly-poly Dr. Morris Fishbein, onetime editor of the A.M.A. Journal. That morning, lamented Fishbein, he had had two breakfasts (the second for sociability); he was going to an alumni lunch, had a date for afternoon cocktails, a speaking date for dinner, and would probably have a snack before retiring. Attacking conviviality as a major cause of overeating, Dr. Fishbein estimated that three-fourths of his eating that day would be convivial...