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...sexes, followed by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, excess weight and physical inactivity. Some factors, however, seem to affect women more severely than men. In fact, smoking and diabetes completely counteract whatever protective benefits a woman normally enjoys before menopause. Also, women are more likely to be overweight, less likely to exercise and appear to be affected more adversely by stress...
...truly noble and worthy fantasy profession. This career provides comfortable pay, a reasonable amount of fame, a ridiculously low level of difficulty, requires little or no prior experience and places one in close proximity to attractive women who are willing to overlook the male-pattern baldness and overweight physique that are Mother Nature’s way of amusing herself at man’s expense...
Once the daydream vanishes, however, reality welcomes me with the semester’s required texts that would pay for about fifty books I’d actually read voluntarily. “Reality,” of course, being the blatantly overpriced, overweight, overwhelming stacks of textbooks the Coop and the Science Center genially offer us every semester and which we tote home, gasping as we lug those slick white and red bags back to our rooms, where they will sit on our bookshelves—and, with luck, be read in the next few days before the midterms...
...mess-hall recipes. The changes were made to deal with an uncomfortable reality: like many other Americans, too many soldiers are paunchy, despite weight requirements and physical training. Many military personnel hold tedious, stressful and sedentary jobs, and as a result, 54% of all military personnel are overweight and 6% are obese, according to a study done in 2000 by scientists at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina...
When I think of someone having a heart attack, the image that comes to mind is of a red-faced, overweight, middle-aged businessman. What I forget--and what I was forcefully reminded of by a survey in the current edition of Women's Health Issues--is that heart disease is also the No. 1 killer of women. In fact, more women than men die of heart disease each year, notes Dr. Sharonne Hayes, director of the Mayo Women's Heart Clinic and co-author of the study...