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The Results suggest that gut microbiota were the culprit in the association between disinfectant use and the overweight.

Anita Kozyrskyj

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The main thing is not to think of food as good food and bad food. It's all good. It's how much you eat of it, i used to be overweight, and I had that in my mind, if I ate a cookie, that was bad and now the day is ruined, instead of just,' that's cool.'.

Kathleen King

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They don't want people to be healthy, if people were really healthy -- everyone is fat and overweight -- and the next half-hour we're going to talk about how we can cut back on our favorite summer foods and cut calories with Cooking Light executive chef -- but if they keep everyone fat and overweight and diabetic and cancer-ridden and stupid and sick, no one has any willpower to fight back or even think for themselves. That's what the goal is.

Bill Shine

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are actually quite optimistic about the outcome of the election, we are overweight local currency government bonds and the Mexican peso.

Paul Greer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If we compare how we manage the business with our peers, we're frankly too complex and overweight. This is a big deal.

Chief Executive Gavin Patterson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We need to ensure we are competitive in the future, that we can deliver products and services for our customers at the right price, if we compare how we manage the business with our peers, we're frankly too complex and overweight. This is a big deal.

Chief Executive Gavin Patterson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

About 15 percent of our children and young people are overweight, about 17 billion euros ($8.5 billion) of healthcare costs are generated annually by diet-related illnesses.

Julia Kloeckner

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

For someone who’s a little overweight, there might be a little bit of an added risk, but as you get very severely obese or morbidly obese, the risk becomes even higher.

Elliot Richard Haut

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Our findings suggest that people sleeping in this seven to nine hour range are less likely to be overweight than those sleeping less.

Greg Potter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Two-thirds of us are overweight or obese, fifty percent of Americans have either diabetes or prediabetes by age 65 now.

Roxanne Sukol

Found on CNN
6 years ago

You see my naked body, although I wear some padding for Ray to make him heavier, this scene had to justify that padding. It wouldn’t make sense for me to wear padding and not be fat when I got out of the bath. So when I got out of the bath, I was properly overweight for me.

Ewan McGregor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Although I wear some padding for Ray to make him heavier, this scene had to justify that padding. It wouldn’t make sense for me to wear padding and not be fat when I got out of the bath. So when I got out of the bath, I was properly overweight for me.

Ewan McGregor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Studies tell us that the vast majority of people who are overweight are interested in losing weight, but interest doesn't necessarily translate to action.

Penn State Kraschnewski

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This may be due to a variety of reasons, including physician discomfort with providing counseling, less time available due to increased other patient conditions or even a greater acceptance of higher rates of obesity, we know that if physicians simply tell their patients they are overweight, they are more likely to be successful in their weight loss efforts. Therefore, it's critical we find a way to help reverse these trends.

Jennifer Kraschnewski

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We are starting now to look at lifetime overweight and obesity, overall, African-American women and other minority groups tend to be more overweight over the lifespan.

Lisa Richardson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If I’m overweight, I’m going to turn to someone who’s in shape and say, ‘What do you eat?’ we wanted the answer to that to be Quest.

Tom Bilyeu

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Being overweight is seen as a positive thing.

Shane Norris

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Many countries now across the continent are facing a double burden of malnutrition, there's still persistent undernutrition in early life and overweight and obesity in later life.

Shane Norris

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s known that rapid weight gain is a risk for obesity and it’s also thought that the first few months of life help develop our satiety responsiveness – how our cravings and sense of fullness while eating feel – and therefore if fed excess amounts during that time we may set children up for a bigger challenge with overweight later in life.

Wendy Sue Swanson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They (could) push out US$6bn in maturities...It alleviates short term funding pressures, once the tender offer is completed (secondary prices) will look better. We maintain our overweight (on Petrobras).

Sarah Leshner Carvalho

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Parents who perceive their child as overweight may also engage in weight conversations with their child, such as telling their child that they are fat and need to lose weight, or, a parent may engage in food restriction behaviors if they perceive that their child is overweight.

Jerica Berge

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People are overweight defensives in general, and within that there is probably a very big overweight in utilities and staples.

Neil Azous

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unfortunately at the population level, the majority of the population are overweight or obese and the majority of the population are inactive, the message here is that health gains could be made at the population level if sitting time was reduced, of course, in addition to engaging in regular exercise.

David Dunstan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The thing with screening tools is that they're great for gathering population data, but they are useless to individuals unless strategies are implemented to help those found at risk, so these kids are being told they are overweight without being taught how to improve the situation with nutrition and exercise.

Ellen Williams

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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