When it comes to cataracts, a major new study finds, body size can make a difference–a potentially blinding one. “This is more bad news for fat people” and especially disheartening at the close of holidays marked by gustatory overindulgence, notes Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weight and Eating Disorders Program in Philadelphia.
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