Cenk Uygur
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Obesity Is Ridiculously Deadly
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June 20, 2017
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5:56Now PlayingObesity kills more people than car crashes, terrorism, and Alzheimer’s combined! Ana Kasparian, Francis Maxwell, and Mark Thompson, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Look around you, and it’s not hard to see how serious the problem of obesity has become in America. People here are now bigger, and suffering from more obesity-related diseases, than ever before — prompting cities across the country to desperately try to fight back with measures like soda taxes and calorie labels.
Travel beyond the US borders, though, and you’ll see the same problem elsewhere: Obesity is now a growing phenomenon in just about every corner of the world, in poor and rich countries alike.
That’s the big take-home message from an impressive new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A global group of researchers, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, came out with the best estimate yet on the worldwide obesity burden, and found that more than 10 percent of the world's population — 107.7 million children and 603.7 adults — is now obese.”
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Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Francis Maxwell, Mark Thompson
Cast: Ana Kasparian, Francis Maxwell, Mark Thompson
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