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In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

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Lois Capps
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
Bureaucrat
Nurse
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U.S. Representative
Ladysmith
Wisconsin
Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud Capps
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