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Obesity, but not overweight, linked to cancer and cardiovascular deaths

Added: September 23, 2008 | Time 02:04 | Views: 108

We know maintaining a healthy weight is important, but a new study looked at the association between death from various diseases and being overweight, or being obese. Obesity is associated with death from some cancers, and death from heart disease, but being overweight is not.

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