Word: overweightness
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...reconstruction from archival material widely scattered in England, France and the U.S. Although his research was thorough enough to produce a 700-odd item bibliography, Randall's greatest skill is portraiture. In A Little Revenge, both Franklins are vital, believable figures: Benjamin, "puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin." Through his 20s, the younger...
Financial triage of various sorts is already taking place even among fully insured patients in the best hospitals. In one New Jersey hospital, for example, there were two thoracic surgeons who did a number of bypass operations. One screened his patients carefully, rejecting smokers, overweight people and other risks; the second accepted sicker patients, including several whom the first had rejected. The second doctor's patients had to stay in the hospital an average of five days longer, and when that showed up on the hospital's computers, his privileges were withdrawn on the ground that his work cost...
...managed to gain control of the company before being charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with looting IOS of $224 million. Now Cornfeld, 57, has resurfaced with his own vitamin company, called Better Living Enterprises. The vitamins, he claims, will help poor sleepers and the overweight and even boost people's sex drives. Waving away suggestions that the virtues of his vitamins might be just a bit overstated, Cornfeld predicts, "Some may have doubts until they've tried it. But once they've tried it, they'll be hooked...
Miller was hardly the model Government agent. Grossly overweight (close to 250 Ibs.), slovenly and inefficient, he was transferred three years ago from a local office in Riverside, Calif, to the FBI's counterintelligence division in Los Angeles, where he could be kept under closer supervision. His glaring personal problems should have alerted his superiors: on a $50,000 salary, he supported a wife and eight children, including a deaf son, and maintained a Los Angeles bungalow and an eleven-acre farm in San Diego County. Once suspended for selling Amway household goods out of the trunk...
...were almost totally clogged, and a third with a 50% blockage. Because the buildup of fatty material in the arteries is usually a slow process, Fixx probably had at least some coronary damage before he took up running at the age 35, and his history of smoking and be overweight probably contributed to problem. Significantly, Fixx's father a heart attack at 35 and was dead 43. Heredity plays a very important in heart disease, notes Cardiologist Winslow of Chicago's Northwestern Medical Center and medical director of the Chicago marathon. "You could say that Fixx was running...