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About Diets
- A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fat people, who were relatively fit.
- Americans spend more on dieting every year than on video games or movies.
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Alexandra
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Evangeline E.
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