as in fatness
the condition of having an excess of body fat
obesity has been linked to a number of health risks, such as heart disease
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Recent Examples of obesity
Especially with obesity medicine, there is so much more to discuss than with hair loss, birth control, erectile dysfunction, or even high blood pressure.
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Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Research showing the drugs not only work for obesity but could lower the risk of heart attacks, stroke, some cancers and even Alzheimer's disease has overshadowed the substantial cost and the fact that many patients can't stay on them.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
In one study of men with overweight and obesity, men who did fasted treadmill workouts five days a week for six weeks saw lower fasting insulin levels.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 19 Feb. 2025
Studies do not suggest vaccines or SSRIs are to blame for chronic illnesses, such as autism or obesity.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2025
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Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Research showing the drugs not only work for obesity but could lower the risk of heart attacks, stroke, some cancers and even Alzheimer's disease has overshadowed the substantial cost and the fact that many patients can't stay on them.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
In one study of men with overweight and obesity, men who did fasted treadmill workouts five days a week for six weeks saw lower fasting insulin levels.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 19 Feb. 2025
Studies do not suggest vaccines or SSRIs are to blame for chronic illnesses, such as autism or obesity.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obesity
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These included long, woolly hair and a way of metabolizing fat that helped the animals survive well in the cold.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Like woolly mammoths, these mice have curlier hair — which is the same color of the mammoth mummies found in the permafrost — as well as a gene that should impact the way their bodies metabolize fat.—
Susan Young,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Lack of deep sleep can cause fatigue and affect form when weight lifting.12 Add in other activities: Pair some aerobic exercises with your weight-lifting regimen.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
3 Mar. 2025
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Morgan Stanley upgrades Melco Resorts & Entertainment to overweight from equal weight Morgan Stanley said the Asia and Europe casino company is well positioned for share gains.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
3 Mar. 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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“Obesity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obesity. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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