Word: fatted
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...fraternal pairs of twins, the team found that siblings end up with similar body weights whether or not they are raised in different families, and that they are much more likely to grow up looking like their natural parents than their adoptive ones. "If both biologic parents are fat, about 80% of their kids are going to be fat," says Dr. Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania...
...steel fabricators or computer salesmen and only part-time politicians, they would be far more careful with the public's money. A member of Congress may not get wealthy on a salary of $96,600 (House) or $98,400 (Senate), but it's enough to relieve anxiety. Pensions are fat and perks numerous. Then there are the unspent campaign kitties: Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the man who shapes the tax laws, has a political slush fund of $1 million, which he can legally keep if he retires. Risky times are dim memories for these...
...recent crusade for civil liberties, the tobacco lobby has found fervent allies in the media industry, which grows fat on tobacco advertising revenues. The executive vice-president of the Magazine Publishers of America testified before a congressional committee that restricting cigarette advertising would lead to an upsurge in smoking because "the prominent health warnings now carried in all magazine tobacco advertising will not be seen by millions of readers." And he said this with a straight face...
Those profits could be threatened by doubts about the safety of some of the new diets. Nineteen former clients of Nutri/System, a program that sells its own low-fat food, have filed suit against the company, charging that they suffered severe gallbladder problems. At last week's hearing, Nutri/System president Donald McCulloch denied the allegations. "No scientific study," he said, "demonstrates that the Nutri/System program increases the risk of gallstones...
...having filed a mere 13 lawsuits against the industry in the entire decade of the '80s, the FTC has brought three cases this year. One action involved a diet pill that when swallowed, according to the ads, would break "into thousands of particles, each acting like a tiny magnet." Fat cells would allegedly be attracted to the "magnets" and eliminated through the digestive system. In addition to - going after such obvious frauds, the FTC has initiated a broad investigation of diet-clinic advertising...