Word: overweightness
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...Lilla Atherton, a fifth-grader in Fairfax County, Va., where the game has been banned. "If a boy doesn't throw hard and make a hit, the other boys call him a girl." Critics charge the sport isn't even good exercise, since it typically leaves the weakest, most overweight kids--the ones usually knocked out first--to sit on the sidelines while the good athletes keep playing...
...quarter of students report feeling "slightly overweight" and 36.8 percent are attempting to shed pounds...
...James Anderson: There are a number of reasons. First, and perhaps most important, obesity is increasing at a frightening rate. In fact, 55 percent of women in the US are considered overweight, and 35 percent are considered obese. So basically, we?re talking about 60 million women who are overweight and therefore at a heightened risk for diabetes...
...study of which I was the lead author. I never stated in that study that obese and fit men had about the same risk of all-cause deaths as men who were fit and of normal weight. In fact, this study reported that men who were physically fit and overweight (including obese men) had about a 10% increased risk of death from all causes. A 10% higher risk of all-cause death is not insignificant and could account for about 100,000 deaths a year in the U.S. Also, overweight men, even those who are physically fit, still have about...
...fatal weakness. The assorted colleges attended by “Undergrads’” four main characters comply with only the shallowest stereotypes about post-high school institutions. Gimpy, a student at Tekerson Tech, spends his time playing juvenile pranks on his RA and ordering around his overweight, bespectacled followers. Nitz, an apathetic whiner, and Cal, an airheaded hedonist, attend State U. Rocko, a “maladjusted, underachieving” jock with alcohol issues, attends (you guessed it!) a community college...