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With such a large percentage of the population weighing more than is healthy, the public health implications of being overweight have taken on greater importance.

The article analyzes the sources of the nation’s obsession with thinness, and concludes that the current legalization of fat has little to do with science, and much more to do with the economic motivations of the weight loss industry, a culture beset by