Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Originally published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the Danish study used subjects with normal weight, studying them each for six hours...
...appears to be a safer treatment than recent popular weight-control drugs such as Redux, which has been linked to liver damage and dangerously-low sugar levels, Habener said...
...Other weight-control drugs are known to artificially stimulate appetite reduction, but scientists say they are unsure about the connection between GLP-1 and the brain...
Remember the illicit thrill of cracking open a thermometer and pouring out the contents, marveling at the slippery weight of the shimmering puddle in your palm? Imagine, then, the excitement of two Arkansas teenagers when they found some 40 lbs. of the stuff--pure mercury--in an abandoned factory where it had been used to make neon lights. They and their friends dipped their hands and arms into it. They poured it on their bedroom floors to see it wobble and flow. They showed it off at school and handed it out in jars and vials. One youth dipped...
...conversation, one gets hints. Decent, conventional jobs are rare enough for a 49-year-old former street person who makes a normal presentation. But Eighner has other strikes against him: his weight; his swollen ankle, which makes it difficult to move about easily; his inability to drive a car; and his lack of the "right clothes" for a "straight...