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We continue from our last issue looking at weight gain and obesity. Diabetes also enters the discussion. Here are four pieces that we think are worth your time:

WHY IT WAS EASIER TO BE SKINNY IN THE 1980S
(3 minute read)
A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years ago are still fatter.
Olga Khazan | The Atlantic | 30 September 2015
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/

A NATIONAL WAR ON FAT & THE VALUE OF YOUNG VOICES
(13 minute read)
America’s war on fat has wreaked havoc on its target demographic. Young Americans are now speaking up about the trauma this health-promoting agenda has caused.
Susan Greenhalgh | Utne Reader | December 2015
http://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/war-on-fat-young-voices-ze0z1512zhou?pageid=1#PageContent1

THE 96TH STREET DEIVIDE: WHY THERE'S SO MUCH DIABETES IN HARLEM (audio) (48 minute listen/40 minute read)
In East Harlem, four times as many people have diabetes as in the neighbouring Upper East Side. Meera Senthilingam meets the New Yorkers stopping poverty from being a death sentence.
Meera Senthilingam | Mosaic | 23 February 2016
https://mosaicscience.com/diabetes-in-harlem-new-york-obesity

HOW THE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN POULTRY FARMING CHANGED THE WAY AMERICA EATS (might be paywalled)
(4 minute read)
Before the widespread application of antibiotics, families in the United States could only afford to eat chicken as part of their Sunday Best meal. Now the use antibiotics is being questioned as farmers reverse course. 
The Economist | 21 September 2017
https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21729544-new-book-about-rise-cheap-chicken-how-use-antibiotics-poultry-farming

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chris eberhardt

co-founder of boundariesandcrossings.org
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