Word: overweightness
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When one thinks of The Grateful Dead, the immediate image brought to mind is that of drugs, tie-dyes and Jerry Garcia, the silver-haired, overweight and unassuming leader of the group...
...back him up. A half-century ago, blacks developed cancer less often than whites. Now, in large part because of smoking, the mortality rate for malignancies is 25% greater for blacks than it is for whites. Almost half of black women and one-third of black men are severely overweight, vs. one-fourth of white men and women. In addition, the salt in soul food can aggravate high blood pressure. "We have to teach people that diet is important," says Dr. Harold Freeman, a surgeon at Harlem Hospital. "As the saying goes, if you can control your mouth...
...annually) cost of health insurance, at least 6,000 U.S. companies, including Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting, refuse to hire smokers, and in some cases fire those who don't beat the habit, even when it is only practiced off the job. For similar insurance reasons, corporate discrimination against the overweight is so widespread that some of the obese have formed a lobbying group called the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance...
...courts allow firms to make decisions on potential costs, it's hard to know where the restrictions will end." Most Americans appear to endorse that view. According to a poll by the National Consumers League, 81% of Americans believe an employer has no right to refuse to hire an overweight person and 76% feel companies should not be allowed to ban smoking...
...states, including New Jersey, Colorado and Oregon, have passed some form of legislation that bars employers from discriminating against workers because of their life-style. (Despite Indiana's new smoker-protection law, Bone has not got her former job back, and has filed a claim against the company. Overweight Mercado sued, won and got a judgment of more than $500,000, plus a return to his old post...