The epidemic about which we hear so much, and about which I and others are so concerned, represents a gain in the average American’s weight of twenty to twenty-five pounds over thirty to forty years, excess fat accumulation, on average, of half a dozen to a dozen calories a day. Now we’re talking about the calories in a single almond or a single gummy bear or less than one-eighth of a teaspoon of olive oil stored per day. If you gained thirty pounds of fat between high school and your fiftieth birthday, this is the amount of calories you stored in your fat tissue every day that you didn’t burn
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