Sentences with phrase «about overweight people»

Other studies suggest that medical professionals tend to make assumptions about overweight people's health and motivations.

The statements touched on stereotypes about overweight people being lazy, unattractive, or incompetent.

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More than two - thirds of people in the United States — about 69 percent — are overweight or obese.

Funny that overweight people are demonized because they don't want to do anything about their weight and there is something they can do about it, but gay people are gay because their brains are wired that way.

=========== @Geno / 2:49 ================== The thing they say about a recoverd alcoholic is that once they've quit, if the ever even take a sip, they have to start all over, but it's the same with a smoker, but not as bad and to a degree with overweight people, but not as much.

Based on the body mass index scale — which some experts are wary of — people with BMI of 30 and higher account for about 33 percent of the adult population and about two - thirds of American adults are obese or overweight.

What about we deport all the people who are overweight then?

Similarly, in your comparison with advocating for exercise and healthy eating, of course no one says not to do that, but it is important to advocate in a way that does not marginalize people who are obese (ie talk about the benefits of healthy eating rather than the hurtful ad campaign that recently came out in Georgia with pictures of overweight kids saying things like, «Fat kids become fat adults»).

All subjects were questioned about their ideal size, their preference for being non-obese (relative to other conditions, such as being an alcoholic or blind), and how much stigma they associated with a person's being overweight or obese.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / ookpiks About 800 million people worldwide do not get enough food to eat, while about 1.5 billion are overweAbout 800 million people worldwide do not get enough food to eat, while about 1.5 billion are overweabout 1.5 billion are overweight.

The average age of the patients was 61 years and the average body mass index (BMI) was 40, which means that the person is about 100 pounds overweight.

When just including overweight people (about 60 per cent of the participants) the extra benefit of seven or more portions a day vanished.

«Our study [implies] that we should be careful about vitamin A, especially [in] overweight or obese people,» wrote Heqian Kuang, first author of the study.

«Our comparison of lean patients and their overweight or obese counterparts gives us clues about risk factors for this disease that go beyond a person's weight,» said Paul Angulo, MD, section chief of hepatology in the division of digestive diseases and nutrition at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

The reason car accidents are more dangerous for overweight people, and what one company is doing about it.

A lot of people get defensive when I talk about someone being «less happy» or «not energized» because they're overweight.

I'll spare you the rest of the details about my past, but the point is that I grew up looking at the world through the eyes of an overweight person.

«Not only that, I wasn't happy about paying taxes that go towards people who are sitting at home all day and making no contribution to society — especially overweight people who spend all their benefits on junk food and cigarettes.

While it is true that HGH helps lose weight by improving metabolic functions so that the body can convert food to fuel rather than fat and start to burn some of the excess fat that has already been stored inside cells, the majority of overweight people will only see a decline of about 10 % of their excess body fat during 6 months of treatment with HGH therapy.

Being overweight may also make your psoriasis more severe and may speed progression to psoriatic arthritis, which affects about 30 % of people with skin psoriasis, and reduce the effectiveness of medications.

Now, think about all those overweight people in the gym who you've seen working out on treadmills and cycling machines who never seem to lose weight.

I know you have written about it before on the blog, but I think its findings are actually more applicable to overweight people than standard diet adherents think (i.e., those who believe in limiting food intake to lose weight, whether by cutting calories, or intermittent fasting, or cutting out certain macros).

You mention something about vegans and vegetarians being an unhealthy weight... What about the amount of overweight people that follow the WAP diet?

And a reality that few talk about is most chronically - overweight people are either food addicted or compulsive overeaters.

Diet soda might not CAUSE weight gain, but it is correlated with being overweight and unhealthy — people who consume diet soda often assume they are making healthier choices about their beverage (which they are), but as a result are consuming MORE food calories than they expected.

If you are an overweight person coming to this site, is feeling shame about your body the first step to getting healthy?

So, it says nothing about body composition: the BMI of a muscular athlete could be the same as that of an overweight sedentary person, which completely misleading.

In a time when there are now more people who are obese or overweight than ever before, what to eat to gain weight seems like a weird thing to be concerned about.

If that isn't enough to scare you, think about the results of another study: people who drank more than 21 diet drinks per week were twice as likely to become overweight or obese than those who didn't drink diet soda.

In Taiwan about 15 years ago it was difficult to see any overweight people, but recently it has changed because of the influence of the western diet.

I am a highly active person, 29 years old and decided to go on the fast in lieu of a low carb diet as I was about 20 lbs overweight and skeptical of the claims to juicing yet intrigued.

On average an overweight person will loose about 2 pounds a week.

Now a person might say «Fair enough, I see the value of the nutrients contained in real fat... but what if I'm already overweight, what about all the calories in fat»?

Aarn Farmer: Let's say, probably two decades, because I really know I was having a problem when I was about 40, but I've been — I'm one of those people that have been overweight my entire life.

He is 5» 10» and weighed 170 before, which is only about 5 pounds overweight for his body... he was / is a thin person.

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There's something buried deep within this narrative about bad parenting — Ronnie's are essentially absent while Alice's mom, played by Diane Lane, is simply a horrible person, berating her overweight daughter in scenes of domestic awfulness that feel overly scripted, under - directed, and just false.

Most people over-trade due to «overweighting» their winning trades as Terrance Odean and his colleagues pointed out in their research titled Do Day Traders Rationally Learn About Their Ability?

This daily walk benefits dogs and owners alike, since about 25 % of dogs are overweight or obese while 36 % of people are obese.

About 58 % of cats in the United States are overweight, and this can lead to the same health problems seen in people.

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Maybe you're concerned about qualifying for life insurance if you have a health condition such as someone searching for life insurance for diabetics or life insurance for overweight people.

The best way to confront these worries is to inform yourself about the situation for overweight people who are looking for health insurance.

He also posted about how society should be more accepting of overweight people because they often can't afford to eat healthier.

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Eating disorders can develop when people are intensely worried about losing control of their eating and becoming overweight.

Teenage children in general, teenage girls in particular and overweight young people are also more likely to feel negative about their bodies or have an unhealthy body image.