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A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

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The study of obesity is the study of mysteries.

The study of obesity is the study of mysteries. Mystery 1: The Obesity Epidemic The first mystery is the obesity epidemic itself. It’s hard for a modern person to appreciate just how thin we all were for most of human history. A century ago, the average man in the US weighed around 155 lbs . Today, he weighs about 195 lbs. About 1% of the population was obese back then . Now it’s about 36%. Back in the 1890s, the federal government had a board of surgeons examine several thousand Union Army veterans who fought in the Civil War . This was several decades after the end of the war, so by this poi

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