
The Obesity Epidemic
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We Sacrifice Health to Focus on Weight
We sacrifice health to focus on weight. Eating lots of twinkies and not moving very much is bad for you, but it can't be bad for me because i'm not showing it physically. We've known this in the 19 sixtiesthe science that we know about obesity. This is not recent. That cliche that 95 % of diets fail comes from a study that was published in 19 50. There's barely three reasons nothing has happened on obesity and why we keep fucking it up. Luke, no country on planet earth has reduced its ob city rate ever. Really. We can become a healthier country, but we're not going a skinnier one.
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