Incoming mail fonts changed

For some reason, all my incoming mail comes in with an Arial bold font that is very hard to read. The same thing has happened on random web pages (yahoo, google, amazon). Any ideas how this happened and how to change them back?
Thanks,
Jtk

Were all received messages composed in HTML?
With a received message open, at the menu bar go to View > Message and if Plan Text Alternative is an available selection, this indicates the message was composed in HTML. If available, select Plain Text Alternative and all text will be converted to the font you have chosen at Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors > Message Font.
When a message is composed in HTML, the sender controls the formatting and the Mail.app does not include a preference setting to automatically convert all text composed in HTML to Plain Text for received messages.

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John, welcome to the forum.
Open Windows Live Mail. Click on the blue "File" in the upper left corner. Then, Options / Mail / Read / Fonts (lower middle of page) / Font size. There you can change the size of the font. I believe that it should come set to "Medium". You can change it by clicking on the drop-down menu.
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<head>
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charset=3Dus-ascii">
<base href=3D"x-msg://185/">
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-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
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apple-content-edited=3D"true">
<span>
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</span>
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font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; =
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: =
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: =
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; =
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
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<br>
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apple-content-edited=3D"true">
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normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: =
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; =
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; =
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; =
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letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: =
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