An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OBESE
corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund
(adjective) excessively fat; “a weighty man”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese or obesest)
Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2.
Synonyms
• See also obese
Anagrams
• Boese
Source: Wiktionary
O*bese". a. Etym: [L. obesus eaten away, lean; also, that has eaten itself fat, fat, stout, p.p. of obedere to devour; ob (see Ob-) + edere to eat. See Eat.]
Definition: Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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