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More pounds requires more chair

By Mary MacVean
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We are where we sit, and where many of us sit these days is a little sturdier, perhaps a little wider. That’s a reflection of the growth of our girth. More than two-thirds of the adults in this country are overweight or obese, and that’s got policymakers worried about the consequences for the nation’s health and the cost of healthcare.

They’re surely a little less weighty, but there are furniture consequences too. Read more about them in the lead story in our print edition this week.

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-- Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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