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More than half of US adults are substance abusers

September 9th, 2005

More than half of US adults are overweight ( Flegal et al. 1998 ), which makes food the most abused substance in our country. If it continues its rise, poor physical condition will supplant tobacco as the leading voluntary cause of death.

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