Obesity Grows to Global Proportions

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	Obesity Grows to Global Proportions

arifsali

4-13-2007 2:26 PM

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health, obesity, world, overweight, children

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4-15-2007 11:54 AM

duvelic

This is sad...
And opposite part of story: More than 30.000 people die from starvation every day...
God help us!

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