Word: overweighting
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...time, figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) not only showed that the incidence of child obesity had doubled in the U.S. since 1980, they revealed that Arkansas had one of the highest rates in the nation: 20.9% of the state's youngsters were overweight while another 17% fell into the borderline "at risk" category. Nationally the figures were 17% and 13%, respectively. Originally envisioned as a new kind of grade on the child's report card, Arkansas's program was revised to provide the information in a more discreet and sensitive way - through confidential letters to parents that...
...alone. In this summer's The Break-Up, Jennifer Aniston lives with an overweight and slobby tour guide, while in Failure to Launch, Sarah Jessica Parker woos a man who dwells with his parents. Those guys would have bonded well with the lads from last year's Wedding Crashers, who sneak into other people's nuptials because they have no life, or with that 40 Year-Old Virgin fella. Or, for that matter, the gentlemen from Hitch or Fever Pitch or Along Came Polly or almost any other recent movie in the opening scenes of which boy and girl meet...
...been talking about establishing a formal complaint system, but for such a thing to work, all the stakeholders first need to acknowledge the refugees’ humanity and their right to demand justice. From my talks with these UN and NGO employees—who, coincidentally, are the only overweight people I’ve seen since landing in Africa—I don’t like our chances. They are not motivated enough. My time in Meheba has made me incredibly thankful for many things: access to food, clean water, health care, endless condoms (wishful thinking), and education...
Women who are less than 30 lbs. overweight might take comfort in the fact that their group showed no significantly greater risk of dying over the length of the investigation. (Other studies have shown similar results.) But they should know that their chances of developing heart disease did increase. "To me, that suggests that seven years was not a long-enough time for follow-up in the overweight women," says the J.A.M.A. report's lead author, Dr. Kathleen McTigue of the University of Pittsburgh. It may simply take longer for the fatal effects of heart disease to start showing...
...eventually enable scientists to get a better handle on the genetic and biological factors that make it easier for some people to stay trim and predispose others to pack on the pounds. The morbidly obese will probably never get the kind of attention that is lavished on the slightly overweight. But someday they may have more effective tools to treat the complications that stem from their obesity--and, better still, to prevent them from becoming obese in the first place...