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Shocking findings for SA in global obesity study

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Excess body weight was directly associated with around four million deaths globally in 2015, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

One of the surprising findings of the study was that almost half of these deaths (40%) occurred in people who were overweight, but not technically classified as obese.

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