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ANDRÉ PICARD

 

Today's Paper:  Globe and Mail, Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:00 AM  Page A19

 

Supersize this news: The more fast-food restaurants there are in a neighbourhood, the higher the rate of heart disease and death.But the authors of a new Canadian study caution that it is not the ready availability of burgers, fries and pop alone that is killing people, but rather a fast-food lifestyle characterized by inactivity, gluttony, and doing everything -- including eating -- in a hurry.