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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Fwd: traditional ways - NYT over half the children in this Mexican-American Community are overweight
  • Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:50:24 -0700


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>In Starr County, Texas, fifty-nine percent of its children live below the
>poverty level, and in the strange new arithmetic of want, in which poverty
>means not starvation but its opposite, it is also one of the fattest.
>Nearly half the kids in elementary school are overweight. Is it because
>they
>are poor? Is it genetic? Or is something else going on?
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>Full Story:
>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2005/01/02/magazine/02OBESITY.h
>tml&tntemail0
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>Or
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/magazine/02OBESITY.html?oref=login&pagewan
>ted=print&position=
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>"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is
>an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo
>
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  • [Livingontheland] Fwd: traditional ways - NYT over half the children in this Mexican-American Community are overweight, Tradingpost, 01/02/2005

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