Not about fatness, but rather because they might make you kill family members.

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The scholars found a complex but clear series of connections between maternal health and the offspring's fatness in later life.

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Extreme fatness makes patients so much less likely to survive surgery that many doctors refuse to operate until they slim.

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Children born underweight have a substantial risk of central obesity (big stomachs, the worst kind of fat) as adults, while children born too big risk greater overall fatness as adults.

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The name alone is enough to raise eyebrows, but wait until you see the special features: a biorhythm calculator, a fatness function that calculates a user's height-to-weight ratio, a calendar for keeping track of your menstrual cycle and a calorie-counting function.

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"The investigators examined changes in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and then its association with change in body fatness or BMI (body mass index), and subsequent deaths from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, " says Rachel Johnson, professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington and chair of the American Heart Assocation's Nutrition Committee, who was not involved in the study.

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