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What causes the obesity pandemic?

A business model, not a lack of willpower. Ultra-processed food is engineered to be craved, priced so low that saying no feels expensive, and sold to kids with $2 billion a year in McDonald's advertising alone. Sugar went from a couple of pounds a year to 60 pounds. At that dose it is a poison, and fast food is its delivery system.

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