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The inequality of obesity - USA Today- Childhood Obesity News

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Letters for print consideration are edited for accuracy, clarity and length, and comments of 250 words or fewer have the best chance of being published. While overall life expectancy increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women from 1960 to 2000 (to 74 and 80), the good news didn’t reach all parts of the country. Four percent of men and almost one in five women there experienced either declines or stagnation in life expectancy beginning in the 1980s . The male-female discrepancy is likely due to the fact that women did not start smoking in large numbers until the 1970s. But fast food, eaten on the run and in vast quantities, has too often replaced the leisurely sit-down dinners with healthier foods of years past. Read Childhood Obesity

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