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'I decided to just eat healthy'

Chef reveals recipe for scraping obesity off plate

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-For the past few years, Marion McCoy has been losing weight, cooking healthier and exercising to ward off what he could see on the horizon-morbid obesity, diabetes, heart problems and possibly a shorter life span.

Weight gain due to years of repeated tasting, eating and preparing food for a living caught up with McCoy. When he started pushing the pound-limits for some high-capacity scales, the Holiday Inn chef cooked up a new attitude about food and his career.

"About four years ago, I got so big I was weighing about 400 pounds. Then I was kind of scared because diabetes and high blood pressure run in my family," McCoy said. ...

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