It’s been a big week for obesity researchers et al.
This week we learned that America blows $147 billion a year on medical treatments related to obesity.
And we also learned that the CDC has developed America’s Official Obesity Solution.
And finally, we learned that thinnies hate fatties. And that fatties have lawyers writing books about how obesity isn’t a medical problem and that all of this anti-obesity talk is discrimination.
Oops.
Maybe I shouldn’t have said fatties.
(please don’t sue me…please don’t sue me…please don’t sue me…please don’t sue me…)
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But before I go and start my long weekend of sun & fun, I have one more uplifting piece of obesity research for you.
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Rates Of Severe Childhood Obesity Have Tripled
ScienceDaily (July 30, 2009) — Rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled in the last 25 years, putting many children at risk for diabetes and heart disease, according to a report in Academic Pediatrics.
“Children are not only […]
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