Even what seems thin may be fat: McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) latest line in healthy-looking salads may contain more fat than its hamburgers, according to a Reuters report, citing information on the company's Web site.
They also found that very thin children who became fat adults were more at risk of serious health problems.
Research has already found a big difference between the bacteria population in the guts of fat and thin people.
Many seemingly thin people carry more fat than muscle, making them trim on the outside, but fat on the inside.
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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.
If the results of human trials are just as good (not a sure bet), a pill to make fat people thin--one of the holy grails for drug companies--will have been discovered.
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.
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.
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.
Leptin has led to a revolution in the study of why some of us are fat and others of us are thin.
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.
The secret: Use fat, short, straight pipes rather than thin, long, crooked ones.
To viewers who had trouble telling them apart, Ebert was known as the fat one with glasses, Siskel as the thin, bald one.
There's a problem with this goal: It will force Dell to change from being an assembler of boxes working on thin margins to an assembler of engineering talent working on fat margins.
DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) said in its statement this morning that one form of the gene predisposed people to become fat, while another predisposed them to be thin.
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.
Fat, fit people tend to be better off healthwise than thin people who are unfit, Gaesser said, suggesting that being fit is far more important than being thin.
They're particularly receptive to the associated message that the restrictions on tobacco displays, and perhaps next on tobacco pack design, are the thin end of a wedge that could see grocers having to pass on fat tax on unhealthy foods.
But it means that public services have had three very thin years, obliging false economies to be made, followed now by four very fat ones, causing money to be wasted.
Fat people not only impose huge costs on society because they are tend to be unhealthier than thin ones.
Because many of the thin diabetes patients included in the new study were elderly, they likely had less muscle mass and more fat.
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