2. Is America's Obesity Epidemic For Real?
Freakonomics Radio
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Fat Politics, the Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic
The science of obesity is very, very complicated. Linking anything to chronic health and predicting any kind of chronic health outcome is an incredibly difficult thing to do from a statistical standpoint. When we start designating people as overweight or obese, we are immediately putting labels on them. And that in itself is a political act.
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