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Fighting the Trend: How to Reduce Our Obesity Rate

Issue: June 2010 by Jan Walker.

Americans are getting fatter by the minute. Despite concerns about obesity raised by health care professionals, employers and the government, U.S. obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions, with 26.5 percent of American adults considered obese in 2009, up 1 percent from 2008. Lynchburg is no exception. In a March 2010 study released by Gallup and [...]

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