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Obese, Online-Obsessed and Dead

Sometimes, when a person dies, some good comes of it -- lessons learned, the world made better. In the case of a 330-pound Chinese man who played video games for a week straight, and then keeled over, the lesson is simple: If you weigh 330 pounds, don't play video games for a week straight!

Posted by Doug Barney on March 05, 2007


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