Antonyms for obesityobe·si·ty

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1. obesity

   Antonyms:
   leanness, thinness

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

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1. fleshiness, obesity, corpulencynoun

   more than average fatness

   Synonyms:
   fleshiness, corpulency

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1. obesity

   Synonyms:
   Obesitas

How to use obesity in a sentence?

1. Lars Bode:

   Other data has shown quite nicely that if you have an elevated( BMI) early on in life, it sets you up for childhood and then adolescent obesity later on in life.

2. 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.

3. Arika Hoscheit:

   Some studies have been able to show that low to medium levels of circulating ketone bodies as seen in nutritional ketosis can be beneficial to the functioning of the endothelial cells in our vascular system. Protecting our vascular system benefits heart health, also, since obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, it makes sense that a ketogenic diet may indirectly benefit heart health simply by way of weight loss and weight management.

4. Laura Schieve:

   One theory that we could not look at and needs further research was some small studies have linked maternal obesity to increased inflammation, which might affect fetal brain development.

5. Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham:

   That was unexpected because we've generally seen kids from wealthier households be more protected from a lot of health issues, especially obesity, this really highlighted for me that obesity affects everybody across socioeconomic status.

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