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What If Everything We Think About Obesity Is Wrong?
New research offers novel insight into the causes of overeating but it’s being lost to political posturing.
Do these make me look fat?
Photographer: Scott Olson/Getty Images North AmericaThe US government is approaching the study of obesity all wrong.
According to leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services, food companies are to blame — they’re engineering their snacks, fast food and sweets to addict us the same way cocaine and nicotine do. Others assessing the epidemic say people overeat because they lack willpower and could stop if they really wanted to.