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A recent finding that being overweight doesn’t appear to be linked with an increased risk of death looks to some like an invitation to a high-fat banquet, if not a fast-food binge.

Don’t go there, warns Cleveland Clinic nutritionist Andrea Dunn, R.D. And the researcher behind the finding cautions that she and her colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) didn’t look at links between excess pounds and cardiovascular disease or death. …

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