The millions sitting at home in a food coma provide a perfect captive audience for television.

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The bottom line is that there's no real point being out in public at this stage of the food coma.

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Come Friday (or late Thursday night), millions of people still in or recovering from the Thanksgiving food coma will be battling in stores to save a few dollars.

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She was fighting for the right to allow doctors to increase her medication to induce a coma-like state and then have food and hydration withdrawn.

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