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Meanings of over-weight in English
Medical condition in which excess body fat harms health.
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Examples for "obesity"
Examples for "obesity"
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Background: Childhood obesity represents a public health crisis in the United States.
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In the long term, a positive energy balance will result in obesity.
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Ultimately, however, the obesity epidemic requires a major focus on primary prevention.
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The Department of Health said it was taking action to combat obesity.
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However, few obesity intervention studies have documented process evaluation methods and results.
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At least 40 million children over the age of five are overweight.
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However, overweight is not considered serious enough to jeopardize life as yet.
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Five years ago 35 year old Sara Byers was unfit and overweight.
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Interestingly, it hasn't always been the case that overweight people lived longer.
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Conclusions: Simple traffic-light charts facilitate discussion of child overweight status with parents.
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We take, indeed, strong hold of the earth; we absorb its fatness.
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The kala of Ohea is noted for its fatness and fine flavor.
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The late King died, as was thought, of fatness about the heart.
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Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness.
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This is all about rising standards of corpulence, of defining fatness upwards.
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This is all about rising standards of corpulence, of defining fatness upwards.
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He was equally distinguished for his courage, his cruelty, and his corpulence.
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It was accepted like one boy's red hair and another's unreasonable corpulence.
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The consumption of RTE cereals also appears to be associated with lower corpulence.
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And, in general, those predisposed to corpulence are therefore less inclined to marriage.
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The seconds are poor in flesh, or they may be, in the case of hens, unsightly from overfatness.
Usage of over-weight in English
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I'm thick-winded, and twenty pounds over-weight-andyou talk calmly about my settling down to office work!
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I would send you the letter to which it is an answer, but it would be over-weight.
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My letter and my heart both threaten to be over-weight, so no more of them this time.
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This letter happened to be over-weight, which gave Mark Twain a chance for some amusing exaggerations at his expense.
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The NZ Transport Agency was making it easier for tankers to get over-weight permits to be allowed to carry more fuel, Ms Collins said.
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Emmy Whitehouse, forty years old and not even an ounce over-weight, had suffered her own MI an hour or so after Rory Dinsmore's accident.
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I would say we have almost covered the difference between first-class and tourist, if you take into account a little over-weight with my red suitcase.
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In contrast, among subjects over-weight at diagnosis, there were significant direct relationships with BMI at ages 20 to 29 and 40 to 49.
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PMID: 8459960 The rate of weight gain was decreased in over-weight women with gestational diabetes versus control subjects in late pregnancy (P = .05).
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However, the study also show three quarter of people aged over 50 years are either objectively over-weight (44 per cent) or obese (34 per cent).
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As to literary art, his writing was ponderous and over-weighted with far-fetched allusion.
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Col. Hercules was a man who knew when he was over-weighted.
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Over-weight by about sixty pounds and a mouth breather.
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And, having noticed the drooping of his eyelids, over-weighted with lashes, she brought her hand-mirror into play again.
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In Cagsaysay the natives climbed on to the housetops and threw down the cinders, which were over-weighting the structures.
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Unaccountably this night, the fair fleshly presence over-weighted her intellectual distinction, to an observer bent on vindicating her innocence.
Frequent collocations
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