Word: overweighting
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...pancreas. This organ secretes insulin to burn up and store carbohydrates, which have been digested to sugars. If an individual inherits a tendency toward diabetes, his hard-pressed pancreas may slow down or stop producing insulin. Out of every 20 diabetics more than 40 years old, 17 were overweight before the disease appeared...
...overweight, underweight, or for some other reason have hesitated to make your contribution, hesitate no longer. Very frail people are giving their blood regularly every two months with no ill effects...
Pronounced overweight at the first examination, he shed 36 lb. in a month, got down to 200. Newly-commissioned Major Alvin York began thinking of running for Congress. Lew Ayres, reclassified to 1-A-O (noncombatant work), left the conscientious objectors' camp at Wyeth, Ore., to report for duty with an Army Medical Corps unit. This work, said he, was "just what I've always wanted to do." He emphasized that his c.o. ideas remained unchanged...
...truck carrying 20,756 lb. of fresh meat from Baltimore to North Carolina's Fort Bragg was fined $82.25 for overweight at Woodbridge, Virginia. Overweight or not, trucks must wait two to six hours in line to be weighed...
...disease is hereditary. Plain overeating does not bring it on unless the glands are frail to begin with. Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst. In the advanced stages, the blood is heavily laden with sugar, pus germs flourish, fat metabolism goes awry, and a victim's body is flooded with poisonous waste products...