Word: overweightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What do seemingly fit firemen and overweight, stress-ridden executives have in common? The answer is heart disease, according to Dr. R. James Barnard of the University of California at Los Angeles. Barnard tested 100 firemen while they were exercising on a treadmill and found that 10% - the same as in a group of sedentary insurance executives - showed signs of latent coronary disease. Potential heart problems were even more obvious in a group of firemen asked to jump onto the treadmill and exercise with no prior warmup. Of 60 tested, 40, or two-thirds, showed abnormal electrocardiograms...
...most abused device is ironic crosscutting. Mai Zetterling has her somber Swedish fun jumping from overmuscled weight lifters to shots of mass-food preparation in the Olympic Village. But since these athletes are not overweight, considering their specialty, her juxtaposition of images is superficial and the idea behind it banal...
...apply it directly to my hips," Valerie would say, and hundreds of fans would write in describing their own caloric calamities. When she had a confrontation with the TV mother, Jewish mothers all over America volunteered advice. In a few weeks Rhoda Morgenstern became TV's favorite wisecracking overweight spinster, and Valerie Harper emerged as a winningly wacky comic actress. Before the season ended, she won the first of her three Emmy awards, for a show in which Mary fixed up a date for her with an old flame-who showed up with his wife. Said Rhoda...
...merely find the squares that best describe them and then add up their scores. A player who does not smoke can award himself a zero. One who puffs two or more packs a day gets ten points. Seven points are given to all who are more than 50 Ibs. overweight, one point to anyone who regularly exercises or does hard physical work, and eight to those who do not exercise at all. Players who score fewer than eleven points at Risko are assured that they have a good chance of avoiding stroke or heart attack. Those scoring more than...
Kissinger still is a bit overweight and fighting it. His hours are full. There still are light flicks of humor in his conversation...