Word: overweightness
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...spends half an hour drawing up different seating arrangements in the three humvees. As the Tomb Raiders grease their guns and pack flashlights and zip-ties (for cuffing hands) into their flak vests, Winston, the platoon's weathered senior sergeant, briefs them on Abu Taha, a middle-aged, overweight man who may be a "major supplier" of weapons to the insurgents. The room falls silent as Winston outlines evacuation procedures in the event that the troops encounter resistance at the house. Since Colgan's death, Winston says, the platoon's anxiety has grown. Every piece of trash now looks like...
...perhaps 100,000 this year. But there are real dangers associated with the operation--ranging from suture tears and leaks to pulmonary embolisms, pneumonia and infection--and these risks seem to be highest among those who need it most, the extremely obese (more than 100 lbs. overweight). That's the conclusion of a study of 335 patients, two of whom died. "This should not be considered a cosmetic procedure," warns lead author Dr. Elmar Merkle of Duke University. "It should be the last option we can offer...
Almost anyone can undertake to change his or her weight, and we should do everything we can to encourage Americans to lose a few pounds. Granted, there are people with particular thyroid conditions and genetic afflictions that cause them to be severely overweight, but they do not make up the 40 percent of the population of this country that is taking up 25 percent of Dartboard’s seat...
Many of us who have to fly home for the holidays will go through the same frustrating airport routine: We will present our driver’s license and our bags will get weighed, and if they’re overweight, we’ll have to pay a fee to account for the extra fuel that will be spent in order to lug our extensive library and Imelda Marcos shoe collection across the skies. But what of the unweighed excess that sits around so many Americans? Is it not unjust that Dartboard is persecuted so that the gluttonous...
...admit, fast food is not the healthiest of foods. But I am in decent shape,” said Bressman, member of the JV basketball team. “Well, perhaps a touch overweight...