Research has already found a big difference between the bacteria population in the guts of fat and thin people.

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Koetsu's sources reached back hundreds of years, and yet his way of writing "fat and thin" characters, some bold and emphatic and others trailing to the faintest visual whisper, was peculiarly his own (at least among Japanese calligraphers) and difficult to emulate.

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The great 19th-century philanthropists laid down their fortunes and set up their foundations in the days when profits were fat, taxes thin and labour weak.

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Leptin has led to a revolution in the study of why some of us are fat and others of us are thin.

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But investors also need to look at where that money is going, lest they find themselves married to an Amazon-like company of fat top lines and ever-thin bottom ones.

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Drives shriveled down to desk size, then to desktop size, then the size of a fat dictionary, followed by a thin paperback, a deck of cards and now just a single card or chip.

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Americans overemphasize the importance of being thin, said professor Glenn Gaesser, author of "Big Fat Lies" and director of the Healthy Lifestyles Research Center at Arizona State University.

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Books depicting either a fat or thin girl called Alfina as the central character elicited similarly polarised responses from a second group of 150 reception and year one schoolchildren.

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