Sentence examples for overweight kid from inspiring English sources

"I grew up on welfare -- my father was a gambler, and my mother was a bookie, and I was an overweight kid eating himself to death.

I was an overweight kid and I'm an overweight adult".He proceeded to supply an update to John Stuart Mill, a 19th-century philosopher who wrote about the limits of state intervention.

It's hard to imagine now, based on Gupta's slight frame, but once upon a time he was an overweight kid with overweight parents.

It used to be there was only one overweight kid in the class.

"Survival has always meant a lot when you're an overweight kid and you've been made fun of and you're put down.

Growing up as an overweight kid, I figured that starting weightlifting and losing the flub I gained from years of slamming back donuts and Goldfish crackers would be enough to kill my nipple problem for good.

Studies have shown that even non-overweight kids who are friendly with overweight kids are considered by their peers to have less status.

But Dr. Hill says it suggests that small changes can keep overweight kids from gaining even more excess weight.

Not only are sedentary, overweight kids more at risk for asthma, but kids with severe asthma tend to exercise less and are thus prone to obesity.

"There is not a lot of evidence that overweight kids are more likely to watch TV than other kids," said Michael Grossman, professor of economics at the City University of New York.

And, Dr. Whitaker said, "the older the overweight kids were, the more likely they were to look that way as adults".