Word: overweighting
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...Army Institute of Pathology, having made case studies of 414 Army men between 18 and 39 who died of coronary artery disease in wartime, offered comfort to high livers: neither drinking, smoking nor overweight had been the cause...
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...statistics on which this conclusion is based are enough to take away a gourmand's appetite: "Those with 20% overweight show mortality approximately one-third higher than average; those with 30% overweight, approximately one-half higher; those with 50% overweight show mortality practically double that for average weight. . . . The mortality from coronary artery disease and other degenerative heart conditions among overweights is more than 1½ times that of average-weight men. . . . The most striking penalty for overweight is diabetes. The death rate from this disease among men 25% or more overweight [is] eight times as high as among...
...this is more than a big aircraft merger-it is the successful conclusion of one of the boldest financial plans since the merger-crazy '20s. The planner: resourceful Victor Emanuel, a fast-moving financial quarterback who bosses the rambling Aviation Corp. The plan: expand Aviation Corp. from an overweight aviation holding company into a General Motors...
...film's neurosis occurs in Beacon Hill Boston. The agonists are: mother-complicated Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis, looking 20 lb. overweight in flat heels and the inevitable spectacles) and Mrs. Henry Windle Vale ( Gladys Cooper, whose discreet, sociologically exact portrayal of the mother is the best thing in the film). Claude Rains, in a role reminiscent of upper-class New England's late Psycho-messiah Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, helps Charlotte escape from Boston and mother by taking a cruise. On shipboard Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid), a voyaging architect, takes the cure a step further by falling...