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   The death toll of the nation's obesity epidemic may be close to four times   
   higher than has been widely believed, and all that excess weight could   
   reverse the steady trend of lengthening life spans for a generation of   
   younger Americans, new research warns.   
      
   Some 18.2% of premature deaths in the United States between 1986 and 2006   
   were associated with excess body mass, according to a team of sociologists   
   led by a Columbia University demographer. That estimate, published online   
   Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health, is far higher than the   
   5% toll widely cited by researchers.   
      
   Columbia University!  That's Obama's college.  They wouldn't lie about   
   something like this.   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-obesity-20130816,0,1789948.story   
      
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