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'Rigorous workouts, high-stress basketball games making Obama skinny'.


Byline: ANI

London, November 3 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has sparked health concerns after being snapped looking slimmer than usual.

The Drudge Report The Drudge Report is a U.S.-based opinion website run by Matt Drudge. The site consists primarily of links to stories from the US and international mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and current events as well as links to many popular columnists.  website published the picture, entitled "Barack 'N Bones", showing the president looking thinner as he stepped out of a gym wearing a large jacket in Washington.

The website said "rigorous workouts and high-stress basketball games" were to blame for Obama's apparent weight loss, reports The Telegraph.

The story comes after Obama dismissed misconceptions Misconceptions is an American sitcom television series for The WB Network for the 2005-2006 season that never aired. It features Jane Leeves, formerly of Frasier, and French Stewart, formerly of 3rd Rock From the Sun.  about his physique physique /phy·sique/ (fi-zek´) the body organization, development, and structure.

phy·sique
n.
The body considered with reference to its proportions, muscular development, and appearance.
 during a speech in Miami a week ago.

He said: "Just 'cause I'm skinny doesn't mean I'm not tough. I don't rattle.

"I'm not going to shrink back Verb 1. shrink back - pull away from a source of disgust or fear
retract

cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, wince, shrink, squinch - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
, because now is the time for us to continue to push and follow through on those things that we know have to be done but haven't been done for decades." (ANI)

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