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Obesity Is A Double Victory

Obesity Is A Double Victory

  • In the affluent world of today one of the leading health problems is obesity, which strikes the poor even more severely than the rich.
  • Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.
  • Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products–contributing to economic growth twice over.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” — Helen Keller

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