Word: overweightness
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Many, aware that to be overweight is to be unattractive, are trying to diet their way to slimness... Many dieters opt for the eccentric. They have no lack of plans from which to choose... The Lover's Diet, devised by Dr. Abraham Friedman, at least sounds like fun. He urges the overweight to "reach for a mate instead of a plate" and exercise off their excess weight through intercourse. But unless they follow Friedman's low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet as well, they are unlikely to shed many pounds. A single act of intercourse, according to Friedman, burns...
Former model Anna Nicole Smith is not the only overweight bodacious babe out there [TELEVISION, July 22]. Writer Joel Stein said, "Despite the fact that she weighs more than 200 lbs., Smith is still beautiful and sexy enough to make men do" what she wants. I too weigh more than 200 lbs. and, like Smith, I can make men do pretty much what I want. There are many women like us walking around. It's all about what a woman exudes, not what her scale says she weighs. Though stereotypes about fat women are alive and well...
...done. The 12 volunteers tested by Bloom and his colleagues were all healthy and of average weight. Perhaps the same biological factors that kept their weight under control also enabled them to respond to PYY. Bloom is already trying the hormone on two more groups of volunteers--one modestly overweight and the other slightly underweight--to see if the hormone will suppress their appetites as well. "We also want to move to long-term treatment and prove that over a week, say, you're still eating less," Bloom says. He is looking into the possibility that certain foods, particularly those...
...stumbled to a halt without first exposing its dark side. Elvis, despite his tremendous success, is generally believed to have been a depressive, even, it has been suggested, manic-depressive, or bipolar. When he died in 1977 from a cardiac arrhythmia, his finances were in wild disarray, he was overweight and (it is believed) he had been abusing alcohol and prescription drugs for years. His private life was also a mess; his marriage to Priscilla Presley had hit the rocks four years earlier...
...quirky little musicals that want to sneak in and out of town before the real blockbusters arrive in the fall. But the buzz over a quirky little musical called Hairspray is providing a rare lift for Broadway's dog days. Based on John Waters' 1988 cult film about an overweight, twist-era teenager who fights for racial integration on the dance floor, the show got ecstatic reviews during its pre-Broadway run in Seattle. Now, as its Aug. 15 opening approaches, theater insiders are touting it as the hottest show since The Producers. Advance ticket sales have topped $6 million...