2. Is America's Obesity Epidemic For Real?
Freakonomics Radio
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Is It Time for a Cheeseburger Tax?
Brian Wansink is the author of Mindless Eating and he's a researcher at Cornell. He also spent some time as a top nutrition official at the US Department of Agriculture. When Wansink looks at the war on obesity, he sees a lot of people with an incentive to hype the problem. Even today, without universal health care, the government pays about 45% of all health care costs.
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