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IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 8, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(1):21-22; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi252
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Commentary: Obesity and mortality—light at the end but still a long tunnel

Benjamin Caballero* and Youfa Wang

Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

* Corresponding author. E-mail: caballero@jhu.edu

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The association between obesity and premature death has been recognized (and debated) for almost 100 years. By the 1920s, insurance companies were already charging higher premiums for life insurance coverage to persons with excess body weight, based on their own actuarial data on mortality rates of obese people. But at that time preventing obesity in the US population was far from being a priority public health goal. Through the 1940s scientific and policy focus would . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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