i went down like a huge d bunky rabbit hole on this extremely small section of michael pollin's book. And then i pulled my head up, and it was like, i have like, an actual show to make. So i'm about to send you the roughly three inches of text that we're goin tospend roughly three hours talking about. I hear they are the alcoholic republic has long since given way to the republic of fat. According to the surgeon ral obesity to day is officially an epidemic. Three of every five americans are over weight. One in every five is obese. A child born in two thousand has a one and three chance of developing diob