Word: overweightness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...conduct, mostly bad, of its elected leaders. This best-selling saga started with "Washington, D.C." and continued with "Burr" (1973), "1876" (1976), "Lincoln" (1984), "Empire" (1987) and "Hollywood" (1990). "The Golden Age" wraps up the long story and includes a flash-forward to earlier this year, when Peter Sanford, overweight and 77, visits the Italian villa of his old friend Gore Vidal to tape a television program of shared musings under the direction of a young man named A. B. Decker, a descendant of Aaron Burr...
...brainer. In the same period in which the diabetes numbers have been climbing, so have the numbers on many people's scales. In 1991 just 12% of the U.S. population was considered obese; by 1998 it was 20%. Meanwhile, the share of people considered to be at least "overweight" climbed from 44% to 54%. All the added fat appears to make the body steadily less responsive to sugar-processing insulin, causing the pancreas to compensate by producing more and more of that essential hormone. Ultimately the body becomes so unresponsive that injected insulin supplements or other medication may become necessary...
...pouts if he can't muster a majority for cheesesteak sandwiches. Perhaps I would find this behavior charming if the Surgeon General were not running around the country complaining that we are raising the most sedentary generation of children in American history, if 1 in 4 kids were not overweight or if I liked cheesesteak...
...least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, plus a new emphasis on eating whole grains, not just highly processed foods like most breakfast cereals and pastas. For the first time, the guidelines stress the importance of daily physical activity, whether or not you are overweight...
...stripe, Green Cup not least among them. Last week they carpet-bombed Houses with table tents and flyers (all printed on 100 percent recycled paper, no less). Some shouted saucy slogans, others combined Orwellian starch with the sort of gentle, nudging reminders one finds on the refrigerator doors of overweight aunts: "GREEN CUP SAYS: Please don't waste food," "GREEN CUP Reminds you... Don't forget to recycle!" (Green Cup is watching...