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Why might so many people be overweight?

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Nowdays most food is cooked in greecy and fattening oils, food also has tons of perservitives in them to keep them fresh longer so that can make people fat because Americans eat so much of this type of food. Also some people just sit around in their houses and eat junk food.

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