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but even stronger with the diseases that might come from it.
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This association is not true just in the United States.
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These are data from the Netherlands
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where investigators created an index of
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what they called neighborhood deprivation,
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that was a combination of education, employment and income--
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education, occupation and employment--and then they looked to see
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how that was related to risk for obesity.
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What you find is the same thing.
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As you go up the levels of deprivation from level one to level four,
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the likelihood of obesity goes up,
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in this very stepwise function.