1.   Mission designers are very thorough in eliminating any excess weight from the spacecraft.

2.   You will already be feeling fitter, healthier, and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight.

3.   According to the affidavit, doctors worried the excess weight could cause heart damage or death and ordered the parents to keep Anamarie on a liquid diet.

4.   Add it all up and gastric bypass patients generally lose two-thirds of their excess weight within a year or two of surgery.

5.   But at least in some of those cases, excess weight is a matter of genetics, not gluttony.

6.   But the authors said they found that excess weight carried less risk in the elderly than in younger people.

7.   But the body is not nearly as efficient at shedding excess weight.

8.   But researchers also are finding several unheralded risks of heart disease that are independent of excess weight.

9.   Excess weight is also a contributing factor to adult-onset diabetes.

10.   Excess weight is increasing as rapidly in the population as an infectious disease might spread, and should be treated as seriously as an epidemic, Koplan said.