By Kenneth Cusi
University of Florida 

Our fight with fat: Why is obesity getting worse?

 

December 27, 2017



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(THE CONVERSATION) Gyms across the country will be packed in the new year with people sticking, however briefly, to their New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Most of them do not know that the cards are stacked against them and that weight loss is much more complicated than working out and not eating dessert.

Years into the obesity epidemic, millions of Americans have tried to lose weight, and millions of them have failed to do so long term.

It’s so serious now that close to 40 pe...



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