Critics said the measure was too limited to have a meaningful effect on New Yorkers' waistlines.
Critics said the measure is too limited to have a meaningful effect on New Yorkers' waistlines.
Even stress could play a role -- adding to our waistlines, substance abuse and criminal behavior.
As their waistlines spread, Americans can take consolation from the fact that most countries are following suit.
Fortunately, the only carried a small bag, but we still added almost 350 empty calories to our waistlines.
Jacobs-Jones suspects the lasting result of Oliver's extended stay might not be trimmer waistlines, but fattened city coffers.
As the study shows, Americans' expanding waistlines are also putting a huge strain on America's health care system.
This and previous research shows that small changes in the eating environment can make a significant difference to our waistlines.
Not long ago, it was celebrity bosses whose balding pates and bulging waistlines filled the covers of America's news magazines.
Diners no longer willing to pay for their gratification with clogged arteries and bulging waistlines are demanding lighter and healthier fare.
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which represents nearly every doctor in the UK, said ballooning waistlines already constituted a "huge crisis".
After all, smaller amounts of product might, hopefully, lead to smaller waistlines.
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Still, Mr Bloomberg is not wrong to worry about New Yorkers' waistlines.
People spend billions on these things, yet our waistlines continue to grow.
Once upon a time, little girls were sold a tale of happily ever afters, tiny waistlines and idealized femininity that does not exist in reality.
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One against the bulging waistlines of potential recruits across the country.
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An article in the International Journal of Obesity says that lack of exercise and an excess of junk food may not sufficiently explain our expanding waistlines.
The extra pounds people are packing on their waistlines might be offsetting gains in gas mileage, according to a blog post from the insurance company Allstate.
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And if employers are willing to experiment a little, they can potentially have an impact on workers' health and waistlines by tapping into their competitive spirit.
The ready availability of that snack bar, packet of crisps or can of soft drink is reinforcing the grazing culture that is adding pounds to our children's waistlines.
Sermons from the food police have failed to shrink waistlines.
In recent years countries including the UK, Mexico and South Africa have introduced measures to help police officers lose weight, as expanding waistlines and reduced fitness hamper the fight against crime.
Free doughnuts in the break room, cakes in honor of co-workers' birthdays and pepperoni pizza, ordered by the boss to reward staff for working overtime, can take a toll on employees' waistlines.
Boiled down, the basic arguments of both reports are essentially the same: American youth are eating too much, and exercising too little, and their burgeoning waistlines are increasingly a threat to national security.
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Held back by a press conference, I got there just in time to see the ladies swoon over the likes of the One Tree Hill cast while gasping at the waistlines of America's Next Top Models.
But Willett says it's becoming clear that most of the dietary risk is due not to specific foods but to Americans' obesity and bulging waistlines, which, he says, are second only to smoking as preventable causes of cancer.
But by affecting these switches in combination, researchers hope that they can modify the risk factors for both diabetes and heart disease--a bona fide blockbuster market in a world where waistlines are expanding and heart disease is at epidemic levels.
Eric Finkelstein, a health economist at the nonprofit RTI Institute who has done extensive work with the Centers for Disease Control to measure the health costs of obesity, worries that there are no incentives for employers to deal with the expanding waistlines of their workers.
No sooner had heavily advertised sweets and snacks taken their toll on the waistlines of those who could afford to indulge than slimming came into vogue, creating a market for dieting aids and low-fat foods as lucrative as that for the products that had caused the weight problem in the first place.
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