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15. "And in all that time, no nation has reduced its obesity rate. Not one."
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And in all that time, no nation has reduced its obesity rate. Not one.

The problem is that in America, like everywhere else, our institutions of public health have become so obsessed with body weight that they have overlooked what is really killing us: our food supply. Diet is the leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for more than five times the fatalities of gun violence and car accidents combined. But it’s not how much we’re eating—Americans actually consume fewer calories now than we did in 2003. It’s what we’re eating.

For more than a decade now, researchers have found that the quality of our food affects disease risk independently of its effect on weight. Fructose, for example, appears to damage insulin sensitivity and liver function more than other sweeteners with the same number of calories. People who eat nuts four times a week have 12 percent lower diabetes incidence and a 13 percent lower mortality rate regardless of their weight. All of our biological systems for regulating energy, hunger and satiety get thrown off by eating foods that are high in sugar, low in fiber and injected with additives. And which now, shockingly, make up 60 percent of the calories we eat.

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Everything you know about obesity is wrong (2018 swipe) [View all] , MEAT, Tue Dec-10-19 12:27 PM
 
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It's not fat people's fault that all this processed food is poison
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the harder thing to overcome is....genetics
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Fat isn’t necessarily unhealthy just like skinny isn’t necessarily h...
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      thats not what i was getting at
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RE: It's not fat people's fault that all this processed food is poison
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RE: Everything you know about obesity is wrong (2018 swipe)
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Doctors have shorter appointments with fat patients and show less emotio...
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      “I was worried I had cancer,” Emily says, “and she was turning it ...
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           Then there are the glaring cultural differences.
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                many doctors, no matter their specialty, think weight falls under their ...
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                     “She didn't even ask me what I was already doing for exercise,” he s...
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                          If Sonya ever forgets that she is fat, the world will remind her.
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                               “It’s always hidden,” she says
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                                    stigma associated with being overweight,” the study concluded, “is ...
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                                         And the abuse from loved ones continues well into adulthood.
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                                              “You can’t claim an identity if everyone around you is saying it do...
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                                                        Every link in the chain, from factory farms to school lunches, is domina...
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                                                             Just 4 percent of agricultural subsidies go to fruits and vegetables.
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                                                                  OUR SHITTY ATTITUDES TOWARDS FAT PEOPLE
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                                                                       THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF STIGMA IS FROM POWER
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                                                                       in a world that refuses to change, it is still up to every fat person, a...
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                                                                       RE: OUR SHITTY ATTITUDES TOWARDS FAT PEOPLE
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luckily i have tremendous doctors my whole life
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Thats awesome. Sincerely.
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anyone see the fasting fatman on youtube?
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And so, in a world that refuses to change, it is still up to every fat p...
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      fasting fatman was really happy...
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      interesting. i'm a fat guy w/ irrational confidence though.
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           I don't think there's enough talk
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Good article...but at the same time...I don't fully get the point it was
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Fat isn't monolith, it isn't individual failure, and the multiple ways w...
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