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Recent Examples of obesity Black women are also diagnosed with higher rates of obesity (nearly three in five) and diabetes (more than one in eight), conditions that increase the risk for stroke. Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024 They have become highly sought after because of their effectiveness at treating obesity and type 2 diabetes. Bruce Gil, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2024 While new obesity drugs are driving Novo’s growth, insulin has been the company’s core product for a century. Madison Muller, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024 Studies have also shown concerns around insulin sensitivity and diabetes, obesity and fertility, Bloom said. Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for obesity 
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Noun
  • According to the authors of the latest study, eating nuts may improve the health of our blood vessels and lower blood pressure and inflammation, which may be as a result of the high concentrations of healthy fats and vitamins in these foods.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Access to foods like sugar, fats, bacon, meat and cheese was limited.
    Sam Tupper, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Municipalities turned to these substances as an alternative to chlorine, because chlorine’s byproducts in water have been associated with possible adverse health effects such as elevated risks of colon and bladder cancer, low birth weight, and miscarriage.
    Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Body weight Your body weight can affect how soft or firm a mattress feels.
    Heather Cruickshank, SELF, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 25 Nov. 2024.

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