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Heart Disease "Will Kill 400,000 Americans This Year"
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According to Reuters, a study by British scientists found that around 400,000 Americans will die in 2010 heart disease. Around half of those deaths could be averted if people ate healthier food and quit smoking.
Simon Capewell of the University of Liverpool said recent weight trends were "alarming," with 1.5 billion adults worldwide expected to be overweight by 2015. "Although (heart disease) death rates have been falling in the United States for four decades, they are now leveling off in young men and women," he wrote in a study in the World Health Organization's weekly journal.
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