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	Doctor fired over 'America Dies on Dunkin' sign

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8-14-2009 2:48 PM

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</P><P>A 38-year-old former Army doctor who served in Iraq, Newsom returned home to Panama City along Florida’s Gulf Coast a few years ago to run the Bay County Health Department and launched a one-man war on obesity by posting sardonic warnings on an electronic sign outside:
</P><P>“Sweet Tea Liquid Sugar.”
</P><P>“Hamburger Spare Tire.”
</P><P>“French Fries Thunder Thighs.”
</P><P>He also called out KFC by name to make people think twice about fried chicken.
</P><P>Then he parodied “America Runs on Dunkin’,” the doughnut chain’s slogan, with: “America Dies on Dunkin’.”
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