Word: overweightness
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...report, titled "Toward Healthful Diets," indicated that the criticism was not entirely justified. Far from giving American dietary habits a clean bill of health, the council's food and nutrition board made a major plea for moderation. Noting that millions of Americans are at least 20% overweight, it recommended that these people could cut down on dietary fats, which contain twice as many calories as equal amounts of carbohydrates and proteins. It also urged reduction in consumption of salt by as much as two-thirds in hopes of reducing high blood pressure, especially among those people susceptible to this...
Despite a ten-minute delay to upright the boat, the literal lightweights finished with the help of their overweight coxswain, captain Kevin Gaut, who had earlier stroked the varsity vessel to victory...
...ontological theories, explains that his mind was changed through the curious logical process of speculating about "possible worlds" in which things could be different. For example, he says, Raquel Welch has "impressive assets" in our world. But there are possible worlds in which she is "mousy and 50 lbs. overweight," and others in which she is totally nonexistent, adding: "What Anselm means to suggest is that Raquel Welch enjoys very little greatness in those worlds in which she does not exist...
...tenth novel Author Thomas Berger claims squatter's rights to the plot of the beleaguered household. Earl Keese, middle-aged and overweight, lives with his wife Enid smack at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...
This is at least an original-the first movie in which the drama derives mainly from an overweight individual's attempts to diet. That point stipulated, however, it's hard to find much else of an encouraging nature to say about Anne Bancroft's debut as a writer and director...