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. Allison Tallman:

   Sweet and sour chicken is a good source of protein (from the chicken), but is secretly packed with a ton of added sugar, some have upward of 40 g of added sugar per serving. Added sugar is negative for your health because it can increase risk of obesity, which leads to heart disease.

2. Erin Hanlon:

   Evidence from laboratory and epidemiological studies has started to consistently associate insufficient sleep with an increased risk of obesity.

3. Penny Gordon-Larsen:

   Physical activity provides multiple health benefits, including physical, cognitive and psychosocial health benefits, low physical activity puts teens at current and future risk for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases.

4. Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin:

   Obesity during pregnancy is associated with children being born large for gestational age and these children are more at risk for childhood obesity and diabetes later in life, women who are planning pregnancy should aim for a healthy weight prior to conception.

5. Dean Schillinger:

   This study determined that the individual effect on obesity was 'clinically small.' However, they acknowledge that, from a population health standpoint, such small changes may, in fact, have important public health implications with respect to the obesity and diabetes epidemics, the evolving consensus is that children should not be exposed to fruit juices, especially in the first 6 years of life.