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- From: kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:44:37 -0500
- Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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- References: <1992Dec29.024354.0201957@locus.com> <1993Jan12.114207.17814@omen.UUCP> <18128@pitt.UUCP> <1993Jan21.170453.27551@rchland.ibm.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.170453.27551@rchland.ibm.com> cecchi@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi) writes:
- > Let's face it, Chuck needs to start the obesity equivilent of ACT-UP and
- > use the same tactics. This has been very successful in obtaining greatly
- > increased priority in the funding of medical research.
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- I hope not. Speaking as someone who was over 150 pounds overweight for
- nearly 20 years, I think obesity is a trivial problem compared to AIDS,
- cancer, and aging, which are where research dollars should be going.
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- Keith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com
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