Word: overweightness
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...drunk as possible as often as possible. Or better yet, let's make sure kids are seeing their fair share of fast food advertisements. Yes, of course! And let's try to forget that according to new government figures, more than 14 percent of American children are overweight - triple the number who tipped the scales in 1980. Obesity, warns Surgeon General David Satcher, is nearly as serious a threat to national health as smoking. Last year, 300,000 Americans died from diseases associated with obesity, while 400,000 died of smoking-related causes...
...experiment, that was exactly what happened. The fruits of Flier’s year and a half long study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center revealed that not only did the mice grow in the same fashion as overweight apple-shaped people, but in adulthood they also developed early symptoms of heart disease and diabetes...
...upend a few boxes.” Egan’s tone shifts, often humorously, to reflect the personality of the character on whose behalf she writes, as when Charlotte talks of New York nightclubs in which “mere unhappiness was about as welcome as an overweight cousin from New Jersey...
...plane was also slightly overweight, its center of gravity too far toward the back. Not a major problem on typical jetliners, it is critical to the Concorde because its design and power make it particularly vulnerable on takeoff. If the sensitive balance was off, British Air pilots would call the mechanic to the cockpit for severe reprimands. The weight distribution had to be correct; otherwise even the wind could pose a danger. In Paris on July 25, 2000, the wind had shifted to come from behind the aircraft: a basic rule for all pilots is that planes should take...
...much the better. The success of a movie like Shallow Hal would inevitably spawn more of its kind. And that would be an indignity—to the overweight, to the actors and to the movie-going public...