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Are You Fat? Here’s the Politically Incorrect Truth
4 truths about being overweight in the modern world
Over the last 70 years, the modern world went from slim to fat.
Look at photos people at the beach in the 1960’s and you’ll see hoards of slim bodies. Look at people at the beach in 2023 and it’s a very different story.
Obesity is one of those tragedies that’s so commonplace and so ubiquitous that nobody even views it as a tragedy.
Obesity is responsible for more deaths than: COVID19, drugs, mass shootings, the Ukraine war and the Israel-Palestine war combined. Yes. Combined.
All of this controversy, all of this media attention on the above issues, and yet right under our noses is a tragedy far bigger and more dangerous that, honestly, people rarely think about.
Fatness and obesity have simply been accepted as a fact of life. As though there’s nothing that we, or you, can do about it. Your neighbour is fat, your mother is fat, the receptionist is fat, your colleague is fat, the doctor is fat. As for you, reading this now, if you live in the USA, there’s a roughly 73% chance that you’re either overweight or obese. (This statistic can’t be accurate, surely!).
