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Is Being Fat Bad For You?

Maintenance Phase

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What the Fuck Are We Doing Here?

Scientist Walter willett wrote a response to an essay by Katherine fleegel about his work on weight loss and mortality. In the article, Fleegel said that he had described her paper as 'ridiculous' But Willett says she was wrong in some ways but not all of them. The two have been arguing for years over whether or not there is any scientific basis for how people should lose weight.

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