Folks, we don’t just have an obesity problem. We have a full-blown public health epidemic on our hands! If you think this sounds mean or uncompassionate, consider how you’d feel if we were pointing out the amount of people who had another life-threatening condition, like cancer. What if the objective was to draw attention to this devastating disease so people could make better choices and avoid dying young because of it? Well, the National Institutes of Health tells us that obesity (and being overweight) are the second most common cause of preventable death in the United States. Tobacco
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