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Filed under: Food, Happy Hour Hero, Health Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Slightly chubby people live six to seven years longer than the very skinny. According to a long-term Japanese study of 50,000 people based on weight at ag
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U.S. life expectancy hit a record high of 78.1 years in 2006. Death rates owing to top 14 causes too fell, according to a report issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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