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| | New JAMA Study Challenges CDC's 400,000 Obesity Deaths Figure |
 | | This false statistic from the CDC has become the rallying cry for trial lawyers pursuing obesity lawsuits against restaurants and for the self-appointed food police seeking regulations and taxes." Today's study in JAMA indicates that being overweight, as opposed to obese, actually saves 86,000 lives. |
 | | "The American public deserves to know where the CDC stands on this greatly reduced number and whether obesity is truly worse than the Black Death, as you have stated." Though the CDC has admitted mathematical errors in its 400,000 study, its own internal investigation, while more revealing, has been alarmingly downplayed. |
 | | A timeline of events reveals the unfolding politics of obesity- related deaths: * March 2004 The CDC releases its report during a highly publicized news conference saying obesity kills 400,000 Americans a year and is poised to become America's number one preventable death, resulting in alarming front page headlines across the nation. |
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