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Reporting from Iraq: Comfort food for troops can pack on the pounds

There are many threats for the troops deployed here, but few as insidious as the bacon cheeseburger, French fries and soda.

Troops sometimes pack on the pounds, just like civilians. Sometimes they skirt the mandatory three-times-a-week physical training or help themselves to a few more trips around the lunch line.

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