Overweight Americans

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By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, December 18, 2001.
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Normal weight adults are now a minority in the US and childhood obesity is at an all time high. The Surgeon General says being overweight is not just a personal issue, it's a pressing public health problem. Laura's guest is Margo Wootan, Director of
Nutrition Policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group based in Washington DC www.cspinet.org.

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