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Tags: OVERWEIGHT women; OBESITY
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- Why Are We So Big? Cool, Lisa Collier // Good Housekeeping;May2002, Vol. 234 Issue 5, p118
No abstract available.
- Too much dieting. // Healthy Weight Journal;Jul/Aug96, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p66
Reports on the findings that one-third of women who request anti-obesity treatment should not be treated as obese patients, since they have a body mass index below 27. Study of women at clinics in several cities in Argentina, presented at the 7th European Congress on Obesity, held in Barcelona,...
- easing the pain. Carson, Holly // Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness Hers;Feb/Mar2002, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p16
Presents an article on how an obese woman overcame her obesity. History of her obesity; Information on her health problems; Discussion on her weight loss.
- Counselling the obese woman. Davey, L.A. // Guidance & Counseling;May91, Vol. 6 Issue 5, p23
Clarifies some popular social misconceptions abut obesity. Belief that obese people are responsible for the way they are; Comparison of sexual drive between obese and normal women; Belief that lost weight will be regained again in due time; Tendency of women to view themselves bigger than they...
- The invisible woman: Now you see her, now you don't. Goodman, W. Charisse // Healthy Weight Journal;Jul/Aug96, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p76
Criticizes thin people who are too comfortable with the pain caused by their imagined superiority over large women. Discreet exclusion from social interaction; Various forms of negative visibility; Stereotyping of large women; Targets for weight bigots.
- Pretty peepers. // Prevention;Feb2004, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p74
Presents information on a study that examined the development of cataracts in overweight women.
- Weight of evidence. // OECD Observer;Nov2001, Issue 229, p69
Focuses on the issue of obesity. Comparison on the percentage of obese women in the United States and obese men in Korea; Prevalence of obesity in the OECD countries; Graphical representation of obesity rate on several countries.
- Obesity linked to birth defects. S. R. // Fit Pregnancy;Feb/Mar2008, Vol. 14 Issue 7, p28
The article discusses research from the University of Texas which found that babies born to obese mothers have higher rates of birth defects. Researchers found that the mothers of babies with certain structural defects--including those involving the spine, heart and limbs--were more likely to be...
- Metabolic profile and quality of life in class I sarcopenic overweight and obese postmenopausal women: a MONET study. Messier, Virginie; Karelis, Antony D.; Lavoie, Marie-Eve; Brochu, Martin; Faraj, May; Strychar, Irene; Rabasa-Lhoret, Remi // Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism;Feb2009, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p18
Sarcopenia is believed to be associated with disability and metabolic complications. The objective of this study was to examine the metabolic and quality-of-life profile of sarcopenic overweight and obese postmenopausal women. In this cross-sectional study of 136 healthy overweight and obese...
