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Researching Root Causes of Obesity

With two-thirds of American adults either obese or overweight the Centers for Disease Control calls obesity an epidemic. And since obesity leads to costly ailments, the Obama Administration has made shrinking American's waistlines a top health priority. To help guide national and local policy, researchers at the University fo Hawaii are busy finding root causes. HPR's Ben Markus reports. 

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AIRED: Friday, August 7, 2009

 
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