Obese \O*bese"\ a. [L. obesus eaten away, lean; also, that has eaten itself fat, fat, stout, p. p. of obedere to devour; ob (see {Ob-}) + edere to eat. See {Eat}.] Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.
The government told the nation's airlines to end discrimination against the handicapped, but barred people who are blind, frail, obese, disabled or under 15 from sitting in rows with emergency exits.
In obese diabetics, the body has too much insulin because it is burning more fats than sugars.
"She was not obese, just a very healthy specimen," Blank Park Zoo director David Allen said Thursday of Toad A, known as "Toad" to her keepers.
He says that an obese person is usually perceived as lacking self-control and willpower.
It claimed the risk of gallbladder disease among the obese can be reduced by prudent dieting.
"You may have a kid who's genetically gifted to be 6-foot-5 and 235 pounds, but with steroids you may end up with a 5-foot-10 obese teen on your hands," asserts Keith Wheeler, a biochemist at Ross Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio.
People barred from such seats include parents with small children, people considered too frail to operate the door, passengers with broken limbs and other disabilities, the obese, children under 15 and the blind.
Kurtz and one of his colleagues, Dr. Harrihar Pershadsingh, suggested earlier this year that in obese people the changes in insulin response may affect the ability of cells to regulate levels of calcium.
A man shot his obese daughter to put an end to high medical bills for her treatment but brought her to a hospital two hours later when she didn't die, police said.
And many parents have overreacted to researchers' warnings that television-addicted children would grow obese; nutritionists had to admonish parents not to take all the fat out of their children's diets.
One study showed that adults who watch an hour of television a day or less have a 3 percent chance of being obese, compared to a 25 percent chance of obesity among adults who watch three hours per day.
Health-care costs for obese people, for example, were 11% higher than those for thin ones.
Study criteria required the children be more than 20 percent over ideal weight for their age, height and sex; both parents living at home, one of whom had to be obese; and one parent willing to attend treatment meetings with their child.
Meanwhile, costs as a percentage of revenues have been slashed 21% since 1986, transforming an expense structure that had been obese into one that's merely plump.
Comic Andrew Dice Clay was booted off the MTV cable network after delivering a monologue laced with lewd poetry and references to obese women and sex.