obese

Preposition: as

woman: Women in routine occupations are twice as likely to be obese as women in professional occupations.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: The researchers say that their findings contradict the idea that drinking too much beer makes people obese.

Modifies a noun

• adolescent: The role of dieting in triggering eating disorders, by evaluating obese adolescents in 1000 twin families.
• patient: There are more obese, diabetic patients in deprived areas.
• teenager: The everyday experiences of ' normal ' weight, overweight and obese young teenagers in Scotland and the embodiment of social and cultural norms.
• mouse: A street in Palermo, Italy, was closed after obese mice started raining down and hitting tourists.
• adult: There are currently about 10 million obese adults in England.
• woman: Miss Essex is an obese young diabetic woman with serious mental health problems.

Modifying Another Word

• morbidly: He said caring for the morbidly obese wasn't even an issue for paramedic service managers 10 years ago.
• clinically: In the UK, 20 % of women are clinically obese.
• severely: For the severely obese, the reduction in life span may be five to 10 years.
• moderately: Moderately obese people live two to five years less than normal-size folks.
• seriously: In my short story ' Paraquat ' the seriously obese Mr Lely devours eleven loaves at a sitting.
• increasingly: It's the most obvious kind of common sense to attempt to rein in the factors which are making us an increasingly obese nation.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Assess your risk of becoming obese Top of Page What causes them?
• consider: A BMI of 30 or more is considered obese.
• get: No wonder children are getting obese if they do not have any gardens to run around in.
• include: Section 3 presents trends in the prevalence of both obesity and overweight ( including obese ) among children aged 2-10.
• class: A person is classed as obese when their weight has increased to a point where it seriously endangers their health.

Preposition: in

childhood: Moreover, there is emerging evidence that breastfed infants are less likely to become obese in later childhood.