Obesity cancels health advantage of affluent, educated

Obesity cancels health advantage of affluent, educated

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t's well-known that educated, affluent people have better health than those with lower income or education.

In the new study of about 5,000 adults, the college-educated with household incomes of more than $75,000 a year had much less of a blood protein linked to heart disease than did the poorer or less educated — as long as they weren't overweight.

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Not exactly something that i guess deep down we all don't already know.

I think it does make us take a step back and stop the 'wonders of modern medicine' chant we like to play on modern western civilization and think that although, yes, we have fantastic medicines to help us when we are sick... lets not make ourselves sick on purpose just to test this fantastic medicine... for goodness sake, put down the Big Mac.

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