Middle-age

Recently, I've been putting on a little weight around my waist. I guess it's middle-age spread.

My waist size has recently increased. I guess it's middle-age spread.

Mrs. Cavendish, who had married John's father when he was a widower with two sons, had been a handsome woman of middle-age as I remembered her.

Green tea gets a good review in the Journal of Periodontology. The March issue includes a study which analyzed a number of lifestyle factors for 940 middle-age Japanese men, including tooth brushing, smoking and green tea consumption. It found that participants who drank green tea had less periodontitis or gum disease. Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the gums and bone supporting the teeth. It's caused by bacteria in the mouth and is made worse by poor oral hygiene.

As they get older, most people tend to gain weight. But it’s not their fault, according to scientists who have discovered a biological mechanism that causes peoples’ waistlines to expand in middle-age.

With the same precaution that they would have consorted with the evil spirits of middle-age romance.

That child is working in the middle-age spirit — the other in the modern spirit.

Perhaps it incapacitated the Arabs and the middleage Schoolmen for all but formal reasoning.