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Life Expectancy Declining in Large Parts of USA


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Posted: Jan 19, 2012

The obesity epidemic is worldwide. Data from the World Health Organization shows that 1 billion adults around the world are overweight, nearly a third of them obese. This creates chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease and declines in longevity around the world, in poor countries and rich ones, including the United States.


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