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We take a completely natural process & we pathologize it, we turn it into a disease, so that it can be treated through pharmacological intervention. All this talk about lifestyle intervention is something that the pharmaceutical industry loves because they know that stuff doesn’t work. The point of all of this discourse is to soften up the regulatory pipeline for the next generation of diet drugs. Thats where the real money is. Thats why we are hearing about ‘obesity obesity obesity’ all of the time. Oh we will get kids to eat fruit and vegetables, Alice Waters will make asparagus for everybody, and we will make lots of bicycle paths and then kids won’t be fat but they will be anyways. So then what will we need? Drugs.
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Paul Campos via the ‘Obesity is the Government Business’ debate where John Stossel should have spent the whole night making balloon animals, doing cartwheels and combing his stache. He was no help.
[Trigger warning for fat puns, shaming and bullshit]
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