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  • Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese.†   (source)
  • Though he wasn't obese, his pants nipped at the waist, making him look as if he were three months pregnant, and I knew I wanted nothing to do with him.†   (source)
  • By then she was an obese woman with a very pretty face, and she ruled her whole roost with an iron fist, including Uncle Isaac, her husband.†   (source)
  • Fred, our obese half-lab yard dog, crouching down with all his hair up and very many teeth showing, facing Hawk who has her neck feathers ruffled out and her beak down as they get ready for head-to-head battle.†   (source)
  • In other cases (such as the rise of franchising and the spread of obesity) fast food has played a more central role.†   (source)
  • Blacksmith is full of obese adults and children, baggy-pantsed, short-legged, waddling.†   (source)
  • In fact, let it be said, obese.†   (source)
  • Morbidly obese with devotion!†   (source)
  • Table scraps were a recipe for canine obesity.†   (source)
  • His obesity, while disgusting, was not enough to incur the intense hate that we felt for him.†   (source)
  • Nilda had continued to put on weight after the birth of the third Ramon and while Papi favored heavy women, he didn't favor obesity and wasn't inclined to go home.†   (source)
  • An obese long-haired black and white cat sprinted down the steps in front of us chasing a cat that looked like its clone.†   (source)
  • I swear, security there is tighter than an airport—like obesity in America is somehow a terrorist plot, and the next big thing to go will be the nation's elliptical machines—and the card features a tiny picture of me, a membership ID number, and my last name and initials: KINGSTON, S. E. Irma screws up her face.†   (source)
  • In recent times his annoyance with the absurd obesity that prevented him from tying his shoes and his abusive satisfaction with all manner of appetites had began to sour his character.†   (source)
  • If your parents are obese, work hard to exercise and eat right so you don't follow in their footsteps.†   (source)
  • Roger Trent was six-one and quickly eating himself to obese status.†   (source)
  • Lila and I had discovered porn magazines in his room, fetish publications like Jugs, and one that featured only nude obese women.†   (source)
  • 'Aren't you Chaplain Shipman?' demanded the obese colonel.†   (source)
  • An obese woman from behind Barbara offers the crowd's reply: "Oh Puleeeeze.†   (source)
  • Because inside the helicopter were three men, a pilot and two scientists, and all three wore clear plastic inflatable suits, making them look like obese men from Mars, or, as one of the hangar maintenance men put it, "like balloons from the Macy's parade.†   (source)
  • An obese woman with a pinched face had been shot in the throat.†   (source)
  • Felicia had only one job for the Bon Temps International Escort Agency, with an obese, freckled rancher from Oklahoma, who wore mismatched snakeskin boots.†   (source)
  • Obese with imagined freedom if not with fat, great lords of lords look down with cowdog eyes and smile.†   (source)
  • At seventy, he was an obese old man with retouched hair and a manner of scornful cynicism retouched by quotations from the yogis about the futility of all human endeavor.†   (source)
  • I was not ugly or thin or obese or pimply.†   (source)
  • But not long after a group of obese 'hunters' had stepped from the trees and begun to sing, Alessandro noticed that the white objects had begun to glide down from the highest balconies.†   (source)
  • He was soft and obese, subject to twitches and trembles, incoherent as often as not.†   (source)
  • She was large but not obese, and crying had turned her face the color of raw chicken.†   (source)
  • One of the free fallers, an obese woman, maneuvered toward the window.†   (source)
  • The rate of obesity among American children is twice as high as it was in the late 1970s.†   (source)
  • The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity.†   (source)
  • Marley had many problems, but obesity was not among them.†   (source)
  • That's because you're an obese man named Chuck who likes to chat up ugly young boys online.†   (source)
  • Yet their rates of heart disease and obesity are lower than the health-crazy Americans'.†   (source)
  • Three morbidly obese hill people on motorized scooters are between me and my morning coffee.†   (source)
  • Seventeen percent of kids age six through nineteen are obese.†   (source)
  • Obesity is now second only to smoking as a cause of mortality in the United States.†   (source)
  • We were not worried about obesity; exactly the opposite.†   (source)
  • The obesity rate among preschoolers has doubled in the past thirty years.†   (source)
  • The rate of obesity among American adults is twice as high today as it was in the early 1960s.†   (source)
  • The annual cost of obesity alone is now twice as large as the fast food industry's total revenues.†   (source)
  • They also have the highest obesity rate.†   (source)
  • The United States now has the highest obesity rate of any industrialized nation in the world.†   (source)
  • Although the current rise in obesity has a number of complex causes, genetics is not one of them.†   (source)
  • The cost of America's obesity epidemic extends far beyond emotional pain and low self-esteem.†   (source)
  • Obesity is much less of a problem in Italy and Spain, where spending on fast food is relatively low.†   (source)
  • If she gains fifty pounds, her BMI reaches 30, and she's considered obese.†   (source)
  • An additional 6 million are "super-obese"; they weigh about a hundred pounds more than they should.†   (source)
  • About two-thirds of the adults in the United States are obese or overweight.†   (source)
  • Today about 44 million American adults are obese.†   (source)
  • Young people who are obese face not only long-term, but also immediate threats to their health.†   (source)
  • The large obese man released the general's wife and spoke to her.†   (source)
  • Because of his obesity, it was easy to forget that Reynolds was a remarkably handsome man.†   (source)
  • The obese man stared down at Bourne, his breathing audible, sweat glistening on his chin.†   (source)
  • An obese figure in civilian clothes watched them from the shadows of the concrete walkway.†   (source)
  • No one replied, so the obese man ran through his door clutching his trousers.†   (source)
  • I ran as though I were obese and exhausted and beaten.†   (source)
  • 'Mr Undersecretary,' said the somewhat obese man with red hair that matched a freckled forehead.†   (source)
  • 'Don't read me the book,' interrupted the obese intelligence officer.†   (source)
  • The prison administrator, an obese alcoholic who hated his job and took it out on the inmates, had just killed all the lights for the night.†   (source)
  • Obese.†   (source)
  • Children with multiple ACEs are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression, to suffer from heart disease and obesity, and to contract certain types of cancers.†   (source)
  • This "girl," whom I'd been cyber-crushing on for the past three years, might very well be an obese, hairy-knuckled guy named Chuck.†   (source)
  • As we made our way through the piles of humans, an obese woman shushed up to us on an electric scooter.†   (source)
  • Wonder drugs mass-produced aboard UFO pharmaceutical labs in the weightless environment of space will lead to cures for anxiety, obesity and mood swings.†   (source)
  • EXTRA CALORIES Behind our epidemic of obesity lies this simple fact: When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it.†   (source)
  • In the long run, however, these cheap calories come with a high price tag: obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease.†   (source)
  • Because of diabetes and all the other health problems caused by obesity, kids in the U.S. today may turn out to be the first group of Americans with life spans that are shorter than their parents'.†   (source)
  • Between 1984 and 1993, the number of fast food restaurants in Great Britain roughly doubled — and so did the obesity rate among adults.†   (source)
  • In 1991, only four states had obesity rates of 15 percent or higher; today at least thirty-seven states do.†   (source)
  • During the 1980s, the sale of fast food in Japan more than doubled; the rate of obesity among children soon doubled, too.†   (source)
  • Obesity is extremely difficult to cure.†   (source)
  • Health officials have concluded that prevention, not treatment, offers the best hope of halting the worldwide obesity epidemic.†   (source)
  • The relationship between a nation's fast food consumption and its rate of obesity has not been definitively established through any long-term, epidemiological study.†   (source)
  • "Rarely do chronic conditions such as obesity," the CDC scientists observed, "spread with the speed and dispersion characteristic of a communicable disease epidemic."†   (source)
  • Obesity has been linked to heart disease, colon cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, infertility, and strokes.†   (source)
  • America's low-income communities now boast the highest proportion of fast food restaurants — as well as the highest obesity rates and the highest rates of diabetes.†   (source)
  • The obesity epidemic that began in the United States during the late 1970s is now spreading to the rest of the world, with fast food as one of its vectors.†   (source)
  • A recent study by half a dozen researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the rate of American obesity was increasing in every state and among both sexes, regardless of age, race, or educational level.†   (source)
  • And by some odd coincidence, the annual cost of the nation's obesity epidemic — about $168 billion, as calculated by researchers at Emory University — is the same as the amount of money Americans spent on fast food in 2011.†   (source)
  • Issues that were rarely discussed in the mainstream media — food safety, animal welfare, the obesity epidemic, the ethics of marketing junk food to children, the need for a new and sustainable agricultural system — have become inescapable.†   (source)
  • The annual health care costs in the United States stemming from obesity now approach $240 billion; on top of that Americans spend more than $33 billion on various weight-loss schemes and diet products.†   (source)
  • The contrast between the thin, fit, and well-to-do and the illness-ridden, poor, and obese has no historical precedent.†   (source)
  • Severely obese American children, aged six to ten, are now dying from heart attacks caused by their weight.†   (source)
  • More than half of all American adults and about one-quarter of all American children are now obese or overweight.†   (source)
  • Hill, a prominent nutritionist at the University of Colorado, "We've got the fattest, least fit generation of kids ever:' The medical literature classifies a person as obese if he or she has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher — a measurement that takes into account both weight and height.†   (source)
  • It was a large face set in a large head, above an obese body pressed against the wall of an end booth, next to a closed door.†   (source)
  • The patch seems no more a Tipping Point in the fight against the smoking epidemic than SlimFast milkshakes are a Tipping Point in the fight against obesity.†   (source)
  • They said unbelievable things, obese women in the express line, with him having two sick parents at home, or one sick and one bad-tempered, like that's sixteen cents off on the tomato paste or that's not a red pear that's a an-jew They forced him to ask across the aisle.†   (source)
  • The heshang was having an effect, but not the effect desired by the obese, tuxedoed man who approached him.†   (source)
  • Because of all their riding and swimming they had not been obese to begin with, but Strassnitzky wanted them to look gaunt.†   (source)
  • But they got no sleep at all, for Yossarian and Orr found themselves jammed into the same double bed with the two twelve-year-old twenty-eight-year-old prostitutes, who turned out to be oily and obese and who kept waking them up all night long to ask them to switch partners.†   (source)
  • I try to picture my mother as a dark skinny girl, but all I can envision is a miniature version of her today, an obese woman in a beige dress with matching pumps, and a look fearsome enough to stop the Lexington Avenue express in its tracks.†   (source)
  • I would sit in front of the television in the morning and watch obese women cry with Simmons, setting off a sort of round-robin of tears among the guest, Simmons, and the studio audience.†   (source)
  • Such an old and dignified custom, the elderly men, the obese trombonist, the young man hollowed out by the bass drum strapped to his torso, each shuffling into the shady house for a glass of red wine.†   (source)
  • There was a man, an obese man-questioned and dismissed by the Sûrete-whose eyes were too unsteady.†   (source)
  • In front of the counter were two people, an obese elderly man and a woman in a dark red dress, the rich color of the silk complementing her long, titian hair … Auburn hair.†   (source)
  • "If you believe that, priest," said the obese man from the Ministry of Military Supply, "you do not know the Komitet."†   (source)
  • "Awright, awright!" screamed Nicolo Dellacroce, twisting on the bed, his obese frame tangling the sheets.†   (source)
  • There were no precious instants to lose thinking about the existence or the non-existence of a huge, obese taipan, too operatic to be real.†   (source)
  • The young woman was put in the custody of a smug obese middle-aged member of the chorus for 'instruction and reflective meditation'.†   (source)
  • Whatever that means, accountant, you're about as clear as your paralyzed ministry," interrupted an obese man in a black suit too small for his girth.†   (source)
  • The Jackal had instantly turned away furiously but not before an obese elderly female, using a miniature camera that was the handle of her purse, had snapped a series of automatically advanced photographs with ultra high-speed film.†   (source)
  • His breath short, his face drenched with sweat, the obese manager raced between the tables to the discarded caftan.†   (source)
  • The taipan's men — if there was a huge, obese taipan to begin with — might have traced the hotel, but it was unlikely they would have tracked the pay phone or the floor.†   (source)
  • A section of the outside wall had been blown away, the obese owner and his chef, still wearing his toque, were dead, corpses pinned against the lower shelves of the kitchen, blood streaming across and down the wood.†   (source)
  • A petrified man, short, obese, in an undershirt, his trousers held up by suspenders, cautiously walked out into the flood of the searchlight, spreading his hands in front of his face and turning his head away from the blinding beam.†   (source)
  • Three thirty-five, 333, 331This is the end\" screamed a female voice, as an obese woman in curlers strode martially out of a door on the right wearing a bathrobe.†   (source)
  • He'd been aware of it, perhaps, as a young man, newly married, standing between the high iron gates of Stony Hill Farm and looking up past the shaded lawn at the porch where his father sat, grossly obese, white-haired, calmly blind, surveying the universe inside his skull.†   (source)
  • She leaned above him: dumpy, obese, gray in color, with a face like that of a drowned corpse.†   (source)
  • Everything about the person of Mitchell Layton was almost and not quite, just short of succeeding: his body had started out to be tall, but changed its mind, leaving him with a long torso above short, stocky legs; his face had delicate bones, but the flesh had played a joke on them, puffing out, not enough to achieve obesity, just enough to suggest permanent mumps.†   (source)
  • Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her.†   (source)
  • That part of his torso visible above the desk is shapeless, almost monstrous, with a soft and sedentary obesity.†   (source)
  • He was saying to an obese gentlemen with a face turning purple in the heat of an argument: "But, my friend, I might not like it either.†   (source)
  • He is in his shirt sleeves, tall, with thin blackclad legs and spare, gaunt arms and shoulders, and with that flabby and obese stomach like some monstrous pregnancy.†   (source)
  • It is a canvas deck chair, mended and faded and sagged so long to the shape of Hightower's body that even when empty it seems to hold still in ghostly embrace the owner's obese shapelessness; approaching, Byron thinks how the mute chair evocative of disuse and supineness and shabby remoteness from the world, is somehow the symbol and the being too of the man himself.†   (source)
  • Groaning, suddenly overcome by her haste, the Frau Professor sank obesely on to a sofa.†   (source)
  • He is at perfect liberty to be thin, but your obesity is contrary to decorum.'†   (source)
  • Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.†   (source)
  • Directly facing him was the box of old Mrs. Manson Mingott, whose monstrous obesity had long since made it impossible for her to attend the Opera, but who was always represented on fashionable nights by some of the younger members of the family.†   (source)
  • Natty, precise, well-brushed, conscious of being rather small amongst the long English, the lank Americans, the rotund Germans, and the obese Russian Jewesses, I should stand there, tapping a cigarette on the outside of my case, surveying for a moment the world in the sunlight.†   (source)
  • The plaintiff, who had been beaten,—an obese chocolate-coloured man with shaved head, one fat breast bare and a bright yellow caste-mark above the bridge of his nose,—sat in pompous immobility: only his eyes glittered, rolling in the gloom, and the nostrils dilated and collapsed violently as he breathed.†   (source)
  • Yet even as to him he was not without some latent misgiving, for withal he was an extremely goodnatured man, an enjoyer of his dinner, a sound sleeper, and inclined to obesity, a man who tho' he would always maintain his manhood in battle might not prove altogether reliable in a moral dilemma involving aught of the tragic.†   (source)
  • She merely looked paler, with darker shadows in the folds and recesses of her obesity; and, in the fluted mob-cap tied by a starched bow between her first two chins, and the muslin kerchief crossed over her billowing purple dressing-gown, she seemed like some shrewd and kindly ancestress of her own who might have yielded too freely to the pleasures of the table.†   (source)
  • He was a big man, stout but not obese, with a round face, a small moustache, and little, rather stupid eyes.†   (source)
  • The Vicar gave his slow, obese smile.†   (source)
  • He had the choler of the obese, easily roused and as easily calmed, and his boys soon discovered that there was much kindliness beneath the invective with which he constantly assailed them.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Reed might be at that time some six or seven and thirty; she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed, not tall, and, though stout, not obese: she had a somewhat large face, the under jaw being much developed and very solid; her brow was low, her chin large and prominent, mouth and nose sufficiently regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was sound as a bell —…†   (source)
  • Ay, let me see the heart—it will at once determine the character of the animal—certes this is not the cor—ay, sure enough it is—the animal must be of the order belluae, from its obese habits!†   (source)
  • The proprietor, knowing that Miss Kenwigs had three sisters, each with two flaxen tails, and all good for sixpence apiece, once a month at least, promptly deserted an old gentleman whom he had just lathered for shaving, and handing him over to the journeyman, (who was not very popular among the ladies, by reason of his obesity and middle age,) waited on the young lady himself.†   (source)
  • He tends to meekness and obesity.†   (source)
  • At the end of that time entered a hulking, obese Babu whose stockinged legs shook with fat, and Kim opened on him with a shower of wayside chaff.†   (source)
  • An obese grey rat toddled along the side of the crypt, moving the pebbles.†   (source)
  • After him toddles an obese grandfather rat on fungus turtle paws under a grey carapace.†   (source)
  • With obese stupidity Florry Talbot regards Stephen.†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Uncloaks impressively, revealing obesity, unrolls a paper and reads solemnly) Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim Kosher Yom Kippur Hanukah Roschaschana Beni Brith Bar Mitzvah Mazzoth Askenazim Meshuggah Talith.†   (source)
  • 4 Piety and conformity to them that like, Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like, I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations, Crying, Leap from your seats and contend for your lives!†   (source)
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