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OBESITY
Not such a deathly risk

© What Doctors Don't Tell You (Volume 16, Issue 3)

New research has found that the number of deaths associated with obesity is far lower than previously believed. The study, carried out by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), found that 112,000 Americans died as a direct result of their obesity in 2000, a much more modest figure than the 414,000 estimated in a separate report (JAMA, 2005; 293: 1861-7, 1868-74).
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