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The United States and the world are facing a serious obesity epidemic.
Clinicians should be aware of the obesity epidemic when advising patients.
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The United States, indeed the world, struggles with a serious obesity epidemic.
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The claim is based on a widely recognized public health issue.
Source
qDIET: toward an automated, self-sustaining knowledge base to facilitate linking point-of-sale grocery items to nutritional content.
Valliammai Chidambaram et al. · PubMed · 2013
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