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It’s nothing to do with race. It’s what people eat and the number of calories they consume.
We need to declare war on obesity. And it’s no time to mince words. We need to call it what it is and regardless of people’s feelings. The big guns need to come out.
The research is conclusive so we have the knowledge to fix our health problems.
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There are two things conclusive about the research. (1) Excess weight is relatively easy to gain, hard to lose, and even harder to keep off once lost. (2) 3 hours of cardio per week go a long way towards preventing undesirable weight gain. Beyond that, very little is known conclusively. Nutritionists can’t even agree on low-fat vs low-carb. And even things they can agree on are mostly irrelevant, because of (1) above: maybe you will lose 2 more pounds after six months on a low-carb diet vs. a low-fat diet, but 9 out of 10 real-world dieters will drop out of either program long before six months, and their weight will quickly bounce back to the original level.
I really don’t want a war on obesity. The last two wars (on drugs and on terror) proved to be very expensive and did not produce meaningful results. And it remains to be proven that obesity is bad for the healthcare bottom line. Maybe we should just let natural selection do its job.
