The word 'fattening' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe food that will make someone gain weight, such as sugary or fried foods. For example, "I should really avoid eating French fries, as they are very fattening".
Worryingly, the study—led by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington—showed that children are fattening at a faster pace than adults.
Sir Bob Dowling, the head recently knighted for his alchemy with sink schools—says that in the current exam system, schools are spending "too much time weighing the pig and not enough fattening it".
Yet the offshore oil industry, and even the onshore diamond industry, continue to thrive, the revenue financing the war, on both sides, and fattening the pockets of the warlords.
The biggest consumers of fattening food may prove similarly resilient to price increases, so a fat tax may do little to improve health, at least for today's junk-food addicts.
On July 27th the Urban Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC, proposed a 10% tax on "fattening food of little nutritional value" that, it claimed, would raise $500 billion over ten years.The logic for a tax on fattening food may seem obvious.
(The company says his remarks were "taken out of context" and denies there is a crisis, but admits that sales of KitKat, its biggest brand, fell by 2% in 2003).Companies are edging away from fattening foods.
Fattening cattle are usually fed from 2.2 to 3.0 percent of their live weight per day, depending on the amount of concentrates in the ration and the rate at which they are being fattened.
The potato may be a cheap source of calories, but its high glycemic index and its lacklustre nutrients (which are lessened by cooking) makes it an unhealthy food for today's ever-fattening population.
Globally, never mind the Klitschkos or the now de-Valueved Nikolay, it was the little Pacman, Manny Pacquiao, who bestrode the boxing world like a colossus, flattening the ever-fattening Ricky Hatton, then dismantling Miguel Cotto.
His topping could be kept, without spoiling, for six months; it kept a hard, neat edge in decoration; it was twice as nourishing as cream, but cheaper and non-fattening.
Even worse, the ice is melting earlier each year – cutting down the amount of seals the bears can catch in the spring, which the bears use as a vital fattening-up time to see them through a long summer fast.
