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Should we be alarmed at the increase in obesity?
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The study, "Too Fat to Fight," found that more than 9 million Americans ages 17 to 24 — more than 25% of the age group — are too overweight for the armed forces. The study cited research showing that students get up to 40% of their daily calorie intake at school and that 80% who were overweight w...
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Judging obesity as if it could never happen to us
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An overweight woman sits alone at the local burger joint. Her meal is the same size as your own. She has arrived there by the influence of the commercial she viewed on TV that afternoon, the very commercial you had seen yourself. This commercial showed an amazing juicy hamburger with crispy lettuce, t...
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Someone calling me fat?
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Founded in 1969, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) is a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to ending size discrimination in all of its forms. NAAFA's goal is to help build a society in which people of every size are accepted with dignity and equality in all aspe...
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