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Barack Obama appeared to link farming with some of the nations leading health problems, including obesity and heart disease, in a recent interview. Obama - citing an article by Michael Pollan, an author and outspoken critic of U.S. farm policy - told Time magazine that agriculture is "partly responsible for the explosion in our health care costs because theyre contributing to type 2 diabetes, ...

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Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday started a week-long visit to Japan for talks on spirituality, his first trip overseas since a health scare.

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