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Obesity Takes Toll After 40

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A new finding suggests that obesity may affect your health the most after age 40.

A study compared medications taken by normal weight, overweight and obese Americans ages 25 to 70. While obese people of all ages took slightly more medications than those of normal weight, the differences were mainly among adults 40 and older.

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