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The racist origins of fat phobia
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There an Obesity Epidemic in America?
B mik: How did we get this idea that there was an epidemic of obesity? Yes. In two thousand four c d c scientists, along with other pretty prestigous scientists in the us. Publishe a journal entry into a very prestigeous medical journal,. wherein they ci that obesity is the leading cause of death for americans. B mik: Now all we could consider was that obesity was the number one cause of death and it was the worst thing to happen to America. And so now scientists have government funding to back their ence that helps to sustain and build what we now understand to be an obesity epidemic.
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