Word: overweighting
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Previously, she said, studies on dieting were unable to determine whether weight-gain incurred was a result of overweight individuals who remain overweight despite their dieting or due to flaws in dieting itself...
Focus on adolescent eating patterns has increased as the number of overweight adolescents in the Unites States has doubled over the last two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...problem with all these new food choices is that sometimes enough can be way, way too much. The obesity problem in the U.S. has reached epidemic proportions, with 65% of the population considered overweight or obese. The pressure is increasing on restaurants and manufacturers to get at least some of the fat out of food. The difficulty, of course, is that fat is often where flavor lives...
...group of 111 women between the ages of 50 and 70 were not affected by their heels, regardless of how often or how high they wore them. Factors that did increase risk included previous knee injury, heavy smoking, osteoarthritis of the feet and, most important, having been overweight (with a BMI of 25 or higher). --By Sora Song
Many of these poor children, and 8.5 million American children in all, are routinely denied annual checkups and basic treatment for their illnesses because they are uninsured. Another 13 million children are clinically overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control, in part because many of them are also poor and uninsured and can afford only cheap, unhealthy food. Childhood obesity increases the likelihood of being overweight as an adult and significantly shortens life expectancy. It also creates health problems that deprive children of the active, carefree youths that they all deserve...