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Oh, Lardy.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-NOV-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Oh, Lardy.(MINISTER OF HEALTH: Jim Atkinson cures what ails us.)

Article Excerpt
This has been a confusing year for Texas's overweight majority. First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that fatness had become such an epidemic that it would soon be a larger public health hazard than smoking--alarming news for a state whose major cities routinely rank as some of the fattest in America. Then a group of scientists reported that being "pleasingly plump" might actually ensure a longer life than being thin. But the CDC--them again--then claimed that the mortality rates in that study were unfairly skewed because a lot of the skinny people included were skinny because they were sick. What gives? Can you really be fat and live...

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