obese
extremely overweight
TRANSLATION
obese = fettleibig, adipös obesity = die Fettleibigkeit, die Adipositas --- GOOGLE INDEX obese/obesity: approximately 28,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Childhood OBESITY is rocketing and it is horrifying that one in three children are overweight or OBESE by the time they leave primary school. The time for effective action is long overdue."
(BBC News)
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Previous research seems to suggest that OBESE people have a reduced sensitivity to sweets, leading them to eat more, which may in turn lower their sugar sensitivity even further.
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
(BBC News)
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Previous research seems to suggest that OBESE people have a reduced sensitivity to sweets, leading them to eat more, which may in turn lower their sugar sensitivity even further.
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
Did you
know?
obese (noun = obesity)
adjective
- extremely fat
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Obese stems from the Latin obesitas, meaning fatness or corpulence. Officially, a person is obese if their BMI (body mass index) exceeds 30. BMI is calculated by dividing the weight (in kilograms) by the height squared (in metres).
The heaviest person in medical history was Jon Brower Minnoch (USA, 1941–83), who had suffered from obesity since childhood. He was 185 cm tall and weighed 178 kg in 1963, 317 kg in 1966 and 442 kg in September 1976.
In March 1978, Minnoch was admitted to University Hospital, Seattle, where endocrinologist Dr. Robert Schwartz calculated that Minnoch must have weighed more than 635 kg, a great deal of which was water accumulation due to his congestive heart failure.
In order to get Minnoch to University Hospital, it took a dozen firemen and an improvised stretcher to move him from his home to a ferryboat. When he arrived at hospital he was put in two beds lashed together. It took 13 people just to roll him over.
After nearly two years on a diet of 1,200 calories per day, he was discharged at 216 kg – the greatest weight loss for a human being on record. He was readmitted to hospital in 1981 after gaining back 89 kg. When he died on September 10, 1983, he weighed more than 362 kg.
(sources: Guinness Book of World Records)
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SYNONYMS
adipose, avoirdupois, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, outsize, paunchy, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout
ANTONYMS
emaciated, skinny, underweight
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I see a lot more obese people walking the streets these days."
adjective
- extremely fat
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Obese stems from the Latin obesitas, meaning fatness or corpulence. Officially, a person is obese if their BMI (body mass index) exceeds 30. BMI is calculated by dividing the weight (in kilograms) by the height squared (in metres).
The heaviest person in medical history was Jon Brower Minnoch (USA, 1941–83), who had suffered from obesity since childhood. He was 185 cm tall and weighed 178 kg in 1963, 317 kg in 1966 and 442 kg in September 1976.
In March 1978, Minnoch was admitted to University Hospital, Seattle, where endocrinologist Dr. Robert Schwartz calculated that Minnoch must have weighed more than 635 kg, a great deal of which was water accumulation due to his congestive heart failure.
In order to get Minnoch to University Hospital, it took a dozen firemen and an improvised stretcher to move him from his home to a ferryboat. When he arrived at hospital he was put in two beds lashed together. It took 13 people just to roll him over.
After nearly two years on a diet of 1,200 calories per day, he was discharged at 216 kg – the greatest weight loss for a human being on record. He was readmitted to hospital in 1981 after gaining back 89 kg. When he died on September 10, 1983, he weighed more than 362 kg.
(sources: Guinness Book of World Records)
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SYNONYMS
adipose, avoirdupois, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, outsize, paunchy, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout
ANTONYMS
emaciated, skinny, underweight
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I see a lot more obese people walking the streets these days."
