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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 study, which was published in the journal Nutrients, had 18 men and women with overweight or obesity take 355 grams a day of either elderberry juice or a placebo beverage for a week.—
Korin Miller,
Verywell Health,
22 Jan. 2025
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The bank downgraded the automaker to equal weight from overweight.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
22 Jan. 2025
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This 2023 Best of Beauty winner uses ceramides and peptides—i.e., two ingredients your skin loves for suppleness and firmness—along with protecting antioxidants, to deliver all-day softness and plumpness while reinforcing your moisture barrier.—
Siena Gagliano,
Allure,
23 Jan. 2025
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Dermal fillers enhance the fullness and plumpness of aging skin.—
Ayesha Gulzar,
Verywell Health,
10 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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“Paunchiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paunchiness. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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