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Obesity is the symptom. The disease is a bigger, more interconnected subject.
by iancmceachern 3y ago
Obesity is the symptom. The disease is a bigger, more interconnected subject.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIt could well be the effect of PFAS, glyphosate, bisphenol A or some other industrial chemical that exploded in prevalence in the last quarter of the 20th Century.
- teslabox 3y agoGood candidates for contributing factors for the obesity epidemic. There seems to have been a spark that set off the obesity conflagration sometime around 1978-1981. The kindling that nurtures this spark had been accumulating since the early 20th century… The chemicals you mention were certainly contributory. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38812171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38812171