Word: overweightness
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...sympathies -- a notion coming this week to a Multiplex near you in Disclosure, a movie in which predatory executive Demi Moore accosts sweet, sensitive Michael Douglas. Jenny Craig plaintiff Tracy Tinkham looks more like Joey Buttafuoco than Michael Douglas, but never mind. Perhaps he was succeeding handsomely at counseling overweight women and should have been promoted instead of being let go for breaking a trivial rule. We are asked to believe that these men's having to listen to jokes about push-up bras or being asked to lift a heavy box makes for a winning case and worldwide media...
...OVERWEIGHT AMERICANS...
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, on a new crusade to slim down the one-third of Americans believed to be overweight, kicked off his "Shape Up America!" campaign at a White House ceremony today. At his side: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, with whom he joined forces on health care reform. Launch of the non-profit Koop Foundation's effort was timed to follow a report from the Institute of Medicine describing the difficulties of shedding pounds and attacking commercial weight-loss programs for causing ineffective yo-yo dieting. But outside the White House, a group of marchers criticized...
...More reason why today's teens could be easily beaten up by their forebears: a federal report concludes that 1 in 5 is overweight; that's up from 15% in the 1970s...
Curtis Gates is getting sentimental. The "athlete of the decade" at his inner-city high school, he once dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player. Some 10 years later he is an overweight wage-laborer in a bleak Chicago factory. Sometimes, he confesses to the camera, his eyes well up and he wonders whether he isn't an abject failure in life...