Sentence examples for obese from inspiring English sources

This is necessary: more than 12m children and adolescents are obese in America, and obesity rates are triple what they were in 1980, though they have levelled off.

The habit has helped make the country one of the most obese in the world, and obesity is a killer: Mexico's mortality rates from diabetes are staggeringly high.

And this in a 'low middle income' country where 67% of Guatemalan's over 15 are overweight, 29% of whom are obese.

I know from personal experience that finding a good job in the current economic climate is difficult; finding one when you are morbidly obese (with a BMI of more than 40) is so much harder.

They also were more likely to be obese or overweight compared to girls despite being more physically active, said the Cancer Council's Kathy Chapman.

After a failed "kidnapping" of him and another sister as schoolchildren, the obese and gormless Jean-Claude, a poor student, was next heard of in 1971 when his ailing father named him as the country's next "president-for-life" and had him endorsed in a rigged referendum (2,391,916 to one, with two abstentions).

This is likely to provoke debate on whether advances in medical and surgical treatments, as well as continuing falls in numbers of people smoking, are being undermined by lifestyles, fuelling big increases in the number of overweight or obese people and those with type 2 diabetes.

He said: "I think it is a great scandal that one in five children leave primary school clinically obese and it is something that we cannot say that we accept.

As well as "general loss of quality of life", Wensley says obese animals suffer from similar health troubles to overweight humans.

The report points out that 70-90% of obese people are suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which – like alcohol – causes cirrhosis and can lead to early death.

He told one obese teen to skip one of the two buses she takes to school and walk through a park instead.