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...second study supported the idea that people inherit physiological traits that predispose them to obesity. A group led by Physiologist Susan B. Roberts of Tufts University studied 18 infants during their first year of life: six of their mothers were thin; twelve were overweight. Roberts and her colleagues measured how many calories the babies took in and how many they burned off. By three months of age, six of the babies with overweight mothers were generating 21% less energy than the rest. At one year, the six had become overweight, although they ate no more than the thinner babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Is Losing Weight a Losing Battle? | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...center has treated some 4,800 clients ($15 for the first visit) with a regimen of strict diet and exercise, and boasts a waiting list of 35,000. Founder Dr. Vasili Vorobyev, author of the best-selling diet book Good Health, estimates that 20% to 50% of Soviets are overweight. "People exercise too little and eat too much," he says. Vorobyev has already opened two more clinics and has plans for a fourth. Jane Fonda, are you listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Frenzy Of Flabnost | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...Four people probably giggled themselves to death. Four overweight probably got high and ate themselves to death. And two newlywed couples probably made love too much and fucked themselves to death," said Leary, a 67-year-old grandfather. CORNELL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...taste is not cool. For instance, there's the running gag about a fat girl whose only "funny" attribute is being overweight. Shooting up scenes and an extremely unfunny deflowering complete the offensive picture...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Dog On Screen | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

...only indication of what slavery might have been like was an overweight woman, whose job it was to swelter next to an authentic kitchen house fire, hanging out the door to cool herself on a 100 degree...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Not Yet Gone With the Wind | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

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