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Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short... by Fricken on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:56AM (#18978099)
Obesity rates in both France and the US are rising at similar, alarming rates. In the mid-90s the US surpassed 24% obesity rates, and at that time France was at less than 10%.

This is crazy. What are we doing? Nobody chooses to be fat, except maybe sumo wrestlers and a few other strange outliers.

Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short... by bildung on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:32AM (#18978372)
One successful approach seems seems to be education at schools and banning junk food there: "From 2012 to 2015, the number of overweight and obese children has dropped by 12%." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/14/amsterdam-so...