Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Castro's second build-up campaign is aimed at the Cuban physique. At 60, the Cuban leader is on a health jag, exhorting his people to exercise regularly, participate in sports and shed unnecessary weight. Two years ago, to establish his credibility in an antismoking campaign, Castro gave up his trademark cigars. But the results of the health campaign have been mixed. Officials claim that tobacco consumption dropped 23% in the campaign's first year, but not all Cubans have become converts to clean living. On the compulsory Saturday workday, a foursome of male goldbrickers sharing a bottle of bootleg...
...more than that. Along the way, these merchandisers are reaping impressive profits by catering more assiduously to a roughly $10 billion sector of the fashion market. Says Nancye Radmin, founder of the Forgotten Woman chain of 17 shops for larger customers: "Everyone thinks that when a woman gains weight, her pocketbook and brain shrink. This just...
...study--directed by Dr. Steven L. Gortmaker, associate professor of sociology--documents a striking increase in weight problems among both grade school children and teenagers...
Poor children are thinner than middle-class youngsters, although the poor are quickly narrowing the weight gap. Children and teen-agers also tend to be fatter in the winter than in the warmer months...
...researchers did not use total body weight to determine obesity, because it's hard to compare youngsters who are different heights. However, in general, experts consider people to be obese if they are more than 20 percent above their ideal body weight. Dietz said he could not estimate how far over ideal body weight the super-obese youngsters were...