Word: overweightness
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There are the rebellious debutantes, the Playboy playmates, the drug addicts, the intoxicated spring breakers revealing their breasts to sinister male crowds, the anorexics, the overweight girls at weight-loss camp, the strippers, the athletes, the athlete-stripper, the porn stars, and the five-year-old dressed as Britney Spears...
...male participants and almost a quarter of the female participants became overweight or obese...
According to the study, girls and boys with BMIs between the 50th and 74th percentiles were five times more likely than their thinner peers—children who had a BMI that fell below the 50th percentile—to become overweight later in life...
...boys and girls with even higher BMIs—between the 75th and 84th percentiles—were up to 20 times more likely than those below the 50th percentile to become overweight at the time of their follow-up appointments...
Previous research has already demonstrated that children who are overweight or obese are at an increased risk for being overweight and obese as adults...