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The role of coffee in social interactions
Different types of coffee and their preparation
The impact of coffee on society and economy
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For half a century, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or saved, millions of lives:
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Doctors have shorter appointments with fat patients and have been reported to show less emotional rapport during the interaction.
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Bioethicist Daniel Callahan said people should be made to feel ashamed of being obese. โPeople donโt realize that they are obese or if they do realize it, itโs not enough to stir them to do anything about it". He kicked his cigarette habit due to shame, so is applying the same psychology to obesity.
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According to a 2015 survey, students receive an average of 19 hours of nutrition education over four years of school timeโfive hours fewer than they got in 2006.
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60%ย of the calories Americans consume come from '"ultra-processed foodsโ, according to theย British Medical Journal (2016).
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Three separate studies have found that fat women are more likely to die from breast and cervical cancers than non-fat women, a result partially attributed to their reluctance to see doctors and get screenings/tests and timely diagnosis.
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More than 40 percent of Americans classified as obese say they experience stigma on a daily basis.
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ย Since 1980, the obesity rate has doubled in 73 countries and increased in 113 others. No country has reduced its obesity rate in all these years.
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Diet is the leading cause of death in the US, responsible for more than five times the fatalities of gun violence and car accidents combined.
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All of our biological systems for regulating energy, hunger and satiety get thrown off by eating foods that are high in sugar (like Fructose, for instance), low in fiber and injected with additives, and which make up 60 percent of the calories we eat.
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