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The Big Fat Conspiracy

Melissa Sweet

BMI touted as most important measure to worry about, but not supported by evidence - poeple with BMI of 20 (ideally thin) do not have better health stats than those with BMI of 30 (obese)

In fact the key factors for early death are sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, yoyo dieting, and what access you have to health care

Erroneous idea that if fat people suddenly get thin they'll live much longer is same as thinking a bald man will live longer if give him a hair transplant (bad men have lower life expectancy, possibly because of extra testosterone)

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Drug companies love it -'obesity' is ideal disease because it doesn't kill patients, can't be treated effectively but patients and doctors insist on treating it anyway

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Bill Clinton and Monica - point of connection that both worried about their weight. Clinton a chubby-wub seeking affirmation of desirability; Monica seeking evidence of attractiveness to a man who would normally be scored by the thin girls. Suggestion that the whole constitutional crisis might have been avoided if 2 fat people had been allowed to eat what they liked without being branded as losers.

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