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How to use the word overweight in a Sentence? Page #3

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A year later, if you're looking at the girls, the ones that got the overweight notice are no trimmer, no less likely to be overweight, or ... no less likely to be obese.

Amy Ellen Schwartz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think that the hope was that by letting parents know, 'Hey, your kid is overweight, your kid is obese,' they would say, 'Wow, I didn't know that' and take action, or the kid would, and we didn't see that.

Amy Ellen Schwartz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When parents use restrictive (e.g. keep food from children) or pressure-to-eat feeding practices (e.g. try to get kids to eat more food), children have an increased risk of being overweight, when a new child is introduced, parents may relax their preoccupation with the older child’s eating behaviors, allowing the older child to respond to their own satiety cues and self-regulate their eating.

Jerica Berge

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We expect double-digit returns so...we are very overweight. The more things go our way, the more we shall add (to positions).

Trigo Paz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unfortunately, although coffee contains compounds that have antioxidant effects and anti-inflammatory properties, drinking a few cups of coffee a day can not undo the systematic damage that is the result of being overweight or obese, sedentary, excessive alcohol consumption or drastically mitigate an unhealthy diet.

Samantha Heller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When people are n’t overweight, they don’t have the incentive to work out and get in shape, but without regular exercise, they just get more and more unhealthy.

Ishwarlal Jialal

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The results from the present study are unlikely to be fully reflective of what may occur in persons who are older, overweight or obese, or have other potent risk factors for diabetes.

James Gangwisch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Inside every overweight woman, is a woman she knows she can be, nothing you’ve ever been through is wasted. So, every time I tried and failed, every time I tried again, and every time I tried again, has brought me to this most powerful moment, to say, if not now, when ?

Oprah Winfrey

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As an industry, we are looking at a potentially very significant political disruption this year, and I think there's a risk factor that has to be compensated for, it wouldn't be an area I would overweight.

Brad McMillan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We were noticing more and more of these types of ads being used in the marketplace. At the same time, we continued to hear about the rising rate of overweight and obese people in much of the western world.

Dr Lily Lin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The inaction based on misguided perception is of major concern, taking action to improve diet and physical activity during childhood can help children avoid a lifetime of being overweight or obese.

Christina Pollard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Someone who recognizes that their child is overweight may not be willing to say so, even in an anonymous survey, part of the problem may be that parents are worried about being labeled ` bad parents. ’ Additionally, parents of overweight children may hope that their child will ` grow out of it ’ or that their height will catch up to their weight.

Davene Wright

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have steadily decreased our overweight to Europe by using the inflow to the fund in buying other regions, if the inflow is lowered then that transition path may need to be revised.

Ole Christian Bech-Moen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We still have a small overweight in Argentina but we have trimmed it a bit, macri has to negotiate with the holdouts... but he a lot of tailwinds behind him.

Shahzad Hasan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The general view is to overweight countries which offer good economic fundamentals.

Sebastien Henin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

European equity markets are catching the tailwind from the U.S. after strong close yesterday. Investors are showing resilience to the recent attacks in Paris despite mounting worries over security in Europe, overall there is a macro tailwind for European equities. The monetary policy of the ECB will continue to weaken the euro versus other major currencies. We are continuing to recommend an overweight in European equities.

Lorne Baring

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Structurally it will be underweight the biggest countries and overweight the smallest countries. Over time this should deliver lower volatility versus the benchmark, thanks to better diversification.

Mathieu Negre

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Staying physically in shape helps with mental capacity and allows me to make better decisions, if I wasn’t taking care of my physical health, I’d be slower, I’d need more caffeine, and I’d be more cranky toward employees or teammates. Who cares if our business is thriving if we’re 300 pounds overweight or we have a heart attack at 35?

Lewis Howes

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Parents may be looking to peers at their child’s preschool and in their local neighborhoods as the standard, and these peers may also be overweight or obese.

Dustin Duncan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You’re not going to save fuel if you overweight them, and they don’t handle well if you really overload them.

Michael Farias

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The current study further suggests that extending the overnight fasting duration in overweight individuals with a habitually short overnight fasting duration leads to weight loss, at least in part due to reduced daily caloric intake.

Frank Scheer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For some people gaining only a few pounds could move them from the non-overweight to overweight range.

Andrea Goldschmidt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Anything that might ease the regulatory process would be good, we're already overweight on pharmaceutical stocks and have been for some time. We think they offer good value in terms of their dividend yield, free cashflow, and have better growth prospects than many other sectors.

Andrea Williams

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Overweight people should check with their doctor prior to embarking on any exercise program.

Michael Lloyd

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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