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#176 - Why food cravings are killing us, and how to stop them | Mark Schatzker & Dr. Casey Means

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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Italian Cuisine Explodes One of the Myths About Food

When you look at the rates of global obesity, US is like right at the top. Italy much lower down with only about 10% obesity. And then South Korea is like way, way, way at the bottom near Japan with like 3%. So what is going on? Where did the trajectories go awry between the US and these other countries that love food are super modernized and yet have a fraction of the obesity that we do? Yeah. I focus on Italy because Italy is a Western culture. There's many Italian immigrants in North America and I love South Korea and Japan but there I think they're culturally more different.

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