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New York, Nov. 9 - What the average Rappahannock County resident should weigh, for proper health, and what he does weigh are two quite different things, it appears.
Under the standards ^recommended by medical authorities, the local population is tons overweight. It has been accumulating much of the extra poundage during the last decade or two.
Tlie problem is a general one. Estimates place the number of Americans who are overweight at about 40 million, or one out of every five persons.
Their annual outlay for reducing pills, for medical treatments, for special foods and the like, in their quest for slimness, comes to more than
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