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LOL! Not easy to rhyme obesity, but you pulled it off!
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ReplyDeleteI wonder what difference it will make. The macro issue is that food is too cheap in this country (not that the government should do anything about that).
ReplyDeleteLast year I went to Madrid for a week, and noticed how thin and happy most Spaniards were. I figured I would contemplate this over lunch. So I went out a bought a phenomenal bottle of Rioja for 6€. Figured I would pick up a sandwich to complement it, but a tiny little sub was also 6€.
So there it was. Spaniards are thin and happy because food is expensive and booze is cheap. We are fat and grumpy because of the opposite.
Coincidentally, someone just handed me the latest Atlantic magazine, the cover story of which is "The End Of Temptation: How the creepy science of behavior modification is reshaping our desires." Now looking forward to a fascinating train ride home.
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