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Study suggests young adults can get fat at church

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(RNS) Thou shalt not serve pizza? Young adults who regularly attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese when they reach middle age than their nonreligious peers, a new study shows. Based on their findings, researchers at Northwestern Universit...

Topics: Culture, Science
Beliefs: Christian - Catholic, Christian - Orthodox, Christian - Protestant

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