Until age 56, obese persons had the highest estimated annual health expenditure.

An obese person of any age should have a medical checkup for possible health risks before undertaking an exercise program.

But that obese person I met at their house with the tribal tattoos and the mud in his hair?

"If the obese person gets down to a lean person's weight, their biochemistry is not the same."

Risk of suicide decreases with increased weight and is low in obese persons.

A lift was lowering itself like an obese person, groaning over the task.

But, she said, studies have shown that "even small weight reduction among obese persons has beneficial effects."

Each week a new obese person appears on the show and is put under pressure to get their life back into shape.

"It's the legislative equivalent of asking an obese person to share their dessert."

There were overweight people but the severely obese person was rare to see.