Word: overweightness
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From the opening seconds of the first round, it was clear that only the names were the same in the Ali-Spinks rematch. Both men were starkly different than they had been six months ago, when Spinks had pummeled Ali and stripped him of his crown. Then Ali was overweight and undertrained. Spinks had been a fury, lashing blows with desperate abandon. With an intensity that was touching, he fought to claim the right to an existence, not just a title. He wanted to be somebody. The outcome left both men with terrible challenges...
WASHINGTON--If the energy required to maintain the fat on overweight Americans were used to generate electricity, it could supply the annual residential needs of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, two scientists said yesterday...
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana came to that conclusion after calculating the energy needed to supply the excess food consumed by America's 1.5 million overweight adults...
...want to drive home the point that being overweight is a social problem and not necessarily just a personal concern" one of the researchers said...
...awake, thinking of my next day's story, and she was sitting awake in the seat across the aisle, watching the road. She was a grandmother, I found out, and she was traveling with three friends--a neighbor, a sister, and her best friend since second grade. She was overweight, she had deep crows' feet around her eyes, and her throat rasped when she laughed. But her clothes were put on carefully and neatly, and she must have been a doll in the late '50s, before the wrinkles set in and the double chin appeared. When she looked...