Word: overweightness
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...battles won by corpulent, middle-aged men? Of course not. It is a job for the under-35s. So why do we now expect the rich, self-satisfied, overweight middle-aged triumvirate of the U.S., Western Europe and Japan to lead a revival of world economic growth...
...thousands of fen/ phen users started showing up in doctor's offices and hospitals with catastrophic heart and lung problems. One of them was an athletic but overweight Boston- area bride-to-be, Mary Linnen, 29. Hoping to look a little more svelte in her wedding dress, Linnen had been taking the pills for only 23 days before she developed a fatal lung condition, primary pulmonary hypertension, that effectively suffocated her within the year. Many other pill takers turned up with plaque-riddled heart valves requiring open-heart surgery...
BREAST VS. BOTTLE If knowing that it wards off infection and allergies still hasn't persuaded mothers to breast-feed their newborns, maybe this will. A study of 15,000 children ages 9 through 14 shows that those who were breast-fed are 20% less likely to be overweight than those who were formula-fed. That's welcome news indeed, since overweight youngsters tend to grow up into overweight adults...
...major risk is that cosmetic surgery doesn't always work. Injianni is inundated by grossly overweight patients with unrealistic expectations about liposuction: "They want us to do things that are just not possible." Within limits, cosmetic surgery can temporarily mask the ravages of age and bad habits. That's clearly why demand remains high, at least until the next serious economic downturn. Given a choice between tight money and sagging skin, consumers may opt to live with the latter...
Once upon a time, an ogre named Shrek lived in a mythical but nonetheless insalubrious swamp. He was green. He was overweight. He liked to take mud showers. He made candles out of his own earwax. Understandably, he led a rather lonely life. He pretended he preferred it that...