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Amazon launches "Amazon Clinic" + Calibrate CEO Isabelle Kenyon on metabolic health | E1614

This Week in Startups

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Is There a Better Way to Manage Obesity?

Any change we make is at least 10 years from implementation, right? Yeah. If landmark research comes out, which it did this summer, one of our advisors, Dariemosafarian at Tufts published research showing that for the last 40 years, Americans' calorie consumption has stayed flat. Their calorie exertion, the amount of calories they use is actually increased for more active than we were 40 years ago. At the same time, the obesity rate doubled. To me, this fairly conclusively proves that it's more complicated than calories in calories out, right? We have poisoned the food supply. We have poisoned our microbiomes. And our bodies are not working the way that they

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