Sentence examples for height and overweight from inspiring English sources

He became a popular crowd-pleaser, exciting the fans with dunks and blocked shots that belied his lack of height and overweight frame.

Clearly the etiology of impaired height and overweight among disadvantaged preschool children in Brazil is complex, making the design and implementation of effective intervention strategies challenging.

This raises the question of whether socioeconomic differences in height and overweight may be an alternative explanation for their apparent relation with prostate cancer risk.

Both height and overweight are socially patterned, with the highest proportion of taller and leaner adult individuals among the more affluent (Batty and Leon, 2002).

Since participants in self-reported studies tend to overestimate their height and overweight subjects tend to underreport their weight, the true prevalence of overweight and obesity were likely to be underestimated [ 24- 26].

In summary, this cohort study provides evidence that height and overweight may be associated with an increased risk of colon cancer for Japanese men, and heavy alcohol consumption may increase the risk of colon cancer in both sexes.

Of average height and somewhat overweight, Evans was well dressed, a skilled speaker, and very ambitious.

It has been suggested that when parents report their children's height and weight, overweight and obesity may be overestimated, mainly because parents tend to underestimate their children's height [ 74].

The high prevalence of both stunting and severe wasting, coupled with increasing rates of overweight, highlight the fact that monitoring weight-for-age alone is insufficient; it is also necessary to include the measurement of length/height to be able to monitor low height-for-age (stunting) as well as low and high weight-for-height (wasting and overweight) at both individual and population levels.

Emerging findings suggested that exposure to Chinese famine in early life was related to elevated risk of diabetes [ 11], metabolic syndrome [ 4, 5], hypertension [ 7], short height [ 12], and overweight [ 13] in adulthood.

He is described as a man of medium height, and a bit overweight, with high blood pressure and perhaps diabetes.