Obesity Rare in Foreign-Born Folk That Is, Until They Move to U.S.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › December 15, 2004
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CHICAGO -- Long-term exposure to American culture may be hazardous to immigrants' health.
A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign- born until they have lived in the United States -- the land of drive- thrus, remote controls and double cheeseburgers -- for more than 10 years.See the full content of this document
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Obesity Rare in Foreign-Born Folk That Is, Until They Move to U.S.
Only 8 percent of immigrants who had lived in the United States for less than a year were obese, but that jumped to 19 percent among those who had be...
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