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Noun
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The obesity epidemic is causing a huge amount of health issues in this country.—
Angelica Stabile,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025 -
People who don’t get enough sleep are at higher risk for obesity, high blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes and depression, O’Keefe said.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
26 Jan. 2025
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Whimsy was also the domain of the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose signature was a race of voluptuously bloated figures — denizens, from priests to bullfighters, of an almost cartoonish world that, to him, had to do not with corpulence but with the sensuality of human life.—
William McDonald,
New York Times,
28 Dec. 2023
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His thick musculature having bloated into unhealthy corpulence, Maradona was hospitalized in Buenos Aires in April 2004 with what doctors described as a weakened heart and acute breathing problems.—
Jeré Longman,
New York Times,
25 Nov. 2020
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Use a large spoon to skim off and discard excess fat from the surface of the sauce.—
Cathy Thomas,
Orange County Register,
28 Jan. 2025
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Specifically, losing excess abdominal weight and reducing visceral fat is important for heart health.—
Jillian Kubala, RD,
Health,
27 Jan. 2025
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The firm downgraded the steel stock to equal weight from overweight on Monday, alongside a $39 per share price target.—
Brian Evans,
CNBC,
3 Feb. 2025
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One review paper examined six studies on probiotics and overweight or obesity.—
Amber J. Tresca,
Verywell Health,
29 Jan. 2025
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Best of all, the radiant finish blurs the appearance of pores, while coffee seed oil stimulates collagen for plumpness.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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Similarly, whenever food was scarce, physical plumpness was desired to signify wealth.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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The medication — taken weekly by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm — is a brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to impact satiety.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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Long-term Issues While most people experience diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps for a few days from food poisoning, Campylobacter may result in serious long-term complications.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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