What are people feeding their dogs and cats that's making them so fat and sick?
How can the rewards from something as boring as insurance be so fat?
But then the Broncos won the toss, so fat chance of that, right?
She was so fat, perfect and pink despite being four weeks early.
One chief executive was modelled as a figure so fat that he blocked a hallway, suggesting he was clogging up the company.
The book is filled with telling anecdotes: the Cu Chi Tunnel soldiers who look at an overweight Western woman, unable to fit through the dug-out warrens, calculating the wealth of someone so fat.
"For most of human history, people didn't have enough to eat, so fat was something you really needed to seek out, " says Marcia Pelchat, a food psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
Finally, as our tale draws closer to its conclusion, we find that the residents of the kingdom of Fairyland at Foggy Bottom have now become so fat and lazy that no one wants to work any more, even if there was a way to plant and harvest a crop.
This so-called fat-finger error occurred when a trader accidentally entered an order to sell a billion shares rather than a million shares.
The research found thin people were less protected by body fat so had an increased risk of bone fractures, which could raise their injury rate.
Profit margins are fat, so firms should be able to absorb higher wages without raising prices.
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If we the people have to sacrifice, so can the Washington fat cat bureaucrats.
The measure, introduced a little over a year ago, was believed to be the world's first so-called "fat tax".
In essence that means they have so much excess body fat that it is having an adverse effect on their health.
They were not so sure about the more complex "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, so they tested it in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico, before dropping one on Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
Risk management consultants say the models that banks use to predict the risks of their exposures don't work in these so-called "fat-tail" events, shocks that move otherwise predictable swings outside the parameters of clever computer programs and their keepers.
To ensure that consumers have a consistent product day to day, month to month and year to year, producers regulate the composition of milk fat, so contents of every like carton are indistinguishable, and of course, remain true to the nutritional information on the packaging.
Singapore authorities think the problem is so serious that a "fat score" has become a part of every primary school child's assessment since 1992 .
So retro foods -- which are often minimally processed, easy to eat, and so low in calories and fat they're almost guaranteed to work -- appeal to them, Lempert adds.
Nearly two thirds of voters plan to back the so-called anti-fat cat initiative in the referendum that would allow a binding annual shareholder vote on executive compensation for listed companies and block big payouts for new hires and for managers when they leave.
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Even so, higher education's fat years are about to be followed by a period of lean ones.
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Fat-free baked products -- like cakes or muffins --replace fat with sugar, so you're still consuming lots of calories.
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"The fat absorbs these flavors so you can taste the forest, " Eggleston says.
When you have a lot of excess fat, it generates so much free fatty acid, the liver can't handle it, so it stores it.
Then came the lower fat dairy products, so that a lot of times people, even passively, wind up with less than whole milk, less cream.
An even bigger victory for Bloomberg is the fact that some chains including McDonalds have gone so far as to ban trans fat in their nationwide.
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So yeah, I mean, Fat Freddy's, for me, is the perfect band, really, because all of those sounds that are current in Wellington get reflected in the music of our group.
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