Word: overweightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seemed a veritable caricature of obesity. He was 5 ft. 2 in. tall and weighed 376 lbs. He could hardly walk a city block and not tie his own shoelaces. He had a bleeding ulcer on his leg that refused to heal-a common problem of the grossly overweight...
...medical advisers approved. For a man about to undergo major surgery, he was clearly overweight. So Lyndon, who fights a constant, losing battle to subdue his passion for pies and chocolate bars, went on a strict diet. Thus the President had seldom seemed in better shape (down from 220 to 202 lbs.) when he flew up to Manhattan the day before the Pope's visit, to sign the new immigration bill in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. Next afternoon, after Pope and President had conferred privately for 46 minutes in a 35th floor suite at the Waldorf...
Half Don't Know It. By far the most common form of diabetes among the estimated 4,000,000 U.S. victims (half of whom don't know they have it) is the "mature onset" type. This develops in people who are over 40, of stocky build and overweight-but always hungry. This form, if severe, was once controlled by insulin and diet, and if mild, by diet alone. Now the milder cases do better with drugs added to diet...
...Physicians insist that adult diabetes can nearly always be controlled by diet alone-if only the patient will stick to the diet. But he rarely does. At Grasslands Hospital in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Charles Weller and Dr. Morton Linder found that the more overweight the diabetic gets, the more insulin there is in his blood. And the more insulin, the more he tends to eat and thus store up more fat in an ever-widening vicious circle...
...Dymelor). Drs. Weller and Linder emphasize that these sulfonylureas promote the release of insulin-at least in the early stages of treatment-and thus help to make fat. They recommend sulfonylureas for patients whose weight problems are not critical and for the few who are underweight. For the overweight, they prescribe phenformin (U.S. Vitamin Corp.'s DBI), which, they say, helps both to control appetite and to speed the metabolism of blood sugar...