“If you go with the flow in America today,” says Thomas Freiden of the CDC, “you’ll end up obese.” He means that obesity is a side effect of progress. But not just progress: a particularly Western version of progress that we’re exporting to the rest of the world. Enormous advances in food preparation and cultivation technology. Media culture and sedentary lifestyles that participate in it. A …

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The Moral Urgency Of Obesity