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Are we what we eat?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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How to Cure the Obesity Epidemic

The problem is humans don't eat very well to labels. We've got internal mechanisms that should guide us, but if we don't eat foods that we've been eating traditionally, those mechanisms don't work particularly. I thought... I have one idea to kind of cure the obesity epidemic, would be to make narrower doors. So people couldn't get out when they got to a certain size, they wouldn't be able to go out and get any more food. You're forgetting delivery services, Harry, I'm afraid. How cunning you are.

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