overweight

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Retatrutide, an investigational triple hormone receptor agonist, delivered positive weight-loss results in a late-stage clinical trial in certain overweight adults without diabetes.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

The rise has been fueled by urbanization, less healthy diets, more sedentary lifestyles, reduced physical activity, population aging, and increasing rates of overweight and obesity.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Some obesity experts worry that this means many people who are severely overweight are unable to access it.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Asset allocation, Currie emphasized, is a zero-sum game: “You cannot be overweight everything.”

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

The forty-nine-year-old Bobby Fischer was described by a reporter who was covering the match for The New York Times as “an overweight, balding, bearded figure, unmistakably middle-aged, whose expression sometimes seems strikingly vacant.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady