Synonyms for obesity
obe·si·ty

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1. obesity

   Synonyms:
   fatness, fleshiness, corpulence, plumpness, corpulency, embonpoint

   Antonyms:
   leanness, thinness

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1. fleshiness, obesity, corpulencynoun

   more than average fatness

   Synonyms:
   fleshiness, corpulency

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1. obesitynoun

   Synonyms:
   fleshiness, fatness, corpulence, corpulency, plumpness, EMBONPOINT

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1. List of paraphrases for "obesity":

   obese, fatness, overweight

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1. obesity

   Synonyms:
   Obesitas

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1. Leonardo Trasande:

   It's not simply calories in, calories out, that used to be a convenient framework for thinking about obesity, but now we know that synthetic chemicals disrupt how calories are processed and ultimately converted into protein vs. sugar vs. fat.

2. Eleni Papadopoulou:

   Our findings show that high maternal caffeine intake during pregnancy was related to excess growth from infancy and with obesity later in childhood. The results support the current recommendations to limit caffeine intake during pregnancy to less than 200 mg of caffeine per day, which is approximately 2-3 cups of coffee...( but) we also found associations with caffeine intake below 200 mg.

3. John Morton:

   Clearly patients who have obesity and joint disease are patients with chronic disease, these patients likely need to have follow up and access to care for needed services like physical therapy.

4. Melinda Beck:

   However, we are not saying that the vaccine will be ineffective in populations with obesity, but rather that obesity should be considered as a modifying factor to be considered for vaccine testing, even a less protective vaccine will still offer some level of immunity.

5. Barbara Galland:

   For other children, jaw alignment may contribute and dental treatment is being developed to address this, other health factors such as obesity can also contribute to sleep-disordered breathing, another reason for developing effective approaches to address this complex health issue.