For the Public Health by Alison Scott, PhD.

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	For the Public Health by Alison Scott, PhD. Can your town make you fat?

By ALISON SCOTT, PhD.

We all know that eating too many donuts and Big Macs and vegging out in front of our large-screen, high-definition TVs is not good for our waistlines. We also know that our national waistlines are expanding at an alarming rate. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only one in three of us today is a healthy weight.

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