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Check out this article from TIME.
The article is basically an interview with epidemiologist David Freedman from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.
Let’s take a look at some good quotes:
…an overweight or obese adolescent is much more likely to become an obese adult than is an overweight one-year-old.”
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This is my first post in a series I’m doing to help disprove the widely held belief that obesity is “caused” by genetics.  This misconception seems to be the number one argument people have when discussing obesity, and rationalizing why it has become so ubiquitous. 
When I first started this blog, I had the intentions to do [...]

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