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Article: Will You be Slim or Supersized in 2014? - One of the Longest Studies to Track Weight Control Success Offers Hope To Americans Resolving to Lose Weight in The New Year -.
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- December 3, 2003
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- No doubt about it -- the world's expanding.
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In the past ten years, dinner plates have increased in diameter an average of 2.5 inches and restaurant portions have more than doubled. The size of soft drinks has grown 52 percent and newer model cars have larger cup holders to accommodate them. Not surprisingly, obesity related health care costs have skyrocketed by 51 percent to $117 billion as a result of the "expanding" obesity problem in the U.S. Given the statistics, one might think that the next ten years look dim if the trend of supersizing ...