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CDC Must Retract Obesity Deaths Study

Trial lawyers and food cops spreading unwarranted hysteria over the nation's so-called "obesity epidemic" have lost yet another leg to stand on. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has determined that its March 2004 bombshell study implying that obesity kills 400,000 Americans each year was fundamentally flawed. read more here »

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