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Entries tagged with Obesity

What is the recipe for success in this great diet?

Getting the whole city involved to collectively lose weight.  And it looks like it’s achieving some great results.

In response to the obesity epidemic in America, Mayor Mick Cornett put Oklahoma City ‘on a diet’ in December 2007, launching this…

Yeow.  $40 billion is a lot of money for too many potato chips (see my weakness) and too many sugary drinks.  New York Times columnist David Leonhardt asked Rand to estimate how much money obesity costs the federal government in Medicare and Medicaid.  And yes, their answer was $40…