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Huckabee's Marathon: From Rotund to Runner

"We need to find a new exit strategy for my life," Mike Huckabee often says in his stump speeches as he criss-crosses Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina. The former Arkansas governor once carried upward of 280 pounds on his 5-foot 11-inch frame. But after a 2003 diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, Huckabee says his doctor scared him straight. "If you don't make a lifestyle change, and do it quick, you're entering the last decade of your life," Huckabee recalls the doctor telling...Full Story
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