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overweight mortality risk study

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Being moderately overweight may prevent early death: study
The study finds that overweight people are 6 percent less likely to die an early death than normal-weight individuals.
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overweight mortality risk study

Colombian twins Juan Manuel and John Anderson Giraldo are weighed in a nutritionist office on Sept. 22, 2011, in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia.

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