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If you go get your shoes shined, and you have to take the guys word for it, there's a good chance you're overweight. Not only is your weight killing you, but it can make you stupid as well. Researchers now tell us the brains of obese people need to work much harder than those of normal weight people to achieve the very same results.

A doctor has proposed putting severely obese children in temporary foster homes. Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston, made this recommendation Wednesday in highly respected 'Journal of the American Medical Association.'