overweight
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Previous research has linked greater consumption of UPFs with higher risks of overweight and obesity, metabolic disease, inflammatory markers, cardiovascular disease, especially heart attacks and strokes, and premature death.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
After taking all these factors into account, Longview says they remain overweight Japanese equities in their strategic portfolio.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, J.P.Morgan remains overweight on Continental, with resilient tire profitability, a supportive price/mix and improving currency offsetting continuing volume and raw-material headwinds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The study, which began last week and will run into 2028, has enrolled 450 overweight people and will test two low doses of the pill compared to a placebo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
He was not a large man, but he liked to eat, and he believed himself to be overweight.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Materials, healthcare and information technology are their sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
“My overweights change based on where I find good investments, and I see great stuff in tech now.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
But, as should be in a novel, the historical never overweights the human or fictitious interest, but is always properly subordinated to it.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013
I see institutional investors paring down Apple from overweighted to equal weighted to underweighted.
From Forbes ● Nov. 12, 2012
Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
There was not much point in telling people to keep overweighting the U.S. when it had already succeeded so well, and opportunities existed overseas.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Jonathan Harrison, a financial advisor at Sound Stewardship in Overland Park, Kan., has been overweighting large-cap value, small-caps, and international stocks in his client portfolios for years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2019
The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
