CDC says obesity deaths overestimated

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CDC says obesity deaths overestimated

By Joyce Howard Price
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The federal government greatly overestimated deaths from obesity in the United States, according to new CDC estimates, which now ranks it as the No. 7 most-preventable cause of death, rather than No. 2.
As recently as January, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated obesity as being responsible for 365,000 deaths per year in the United States. But the new estimate, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), puts the annual death toll at only 25,814 -- the earlier estimate was about 14 times greater.

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It shows the article was written on April 20, 2005, but I felt the need to post it. One of our old Dimensioners reported it to me.

 

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