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Boomer Health

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on how the health of the generation born after World War II compares to that of their parents. The so-called fitness craze -- which hasn't lasted and is not that pervasive -- has little to do with the fact that they probably will live longer than their parents. And the fitness craze hasn't kept them from aging.

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