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To the Editor: I commend you and Dr. Angell (Jan. 1 issue)¹ for recognizing that "the best public health approach is to concentrate on measures to prevent obesity" and stressing the importance of avoiding weight gain. However, even a modest degree of excess weight is associated with an increased risk of hypertension ^2,3 and diabetes.⁴ The combination of the severity of the consequences of excess weight and the fact that approximately 24.7 percent of all U.S. women are overweight (defined as a body-mass index — calculated as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters — . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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