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Johann Hari (Pt 1) - How Can We Change?

The Imperfects

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The Single Best Predictor of Obesity

We're a social species and we develop our sense of the norm from the people around us. The single best predictor of whether you will be obese is whether your social group is obese. It's why smoking felt, when it started to fall, it felt really dramatically because it created a group effect for giving up smoking. So basically as humans, we look around, people around us and go, oh, that's how I should be. Right? We're very imitated. If there isn't one, you guys should set it up. There's a hunger for it. Yeah.

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