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Is Obesity Contagious?
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Linda Mintle
The flu is contagious, yawning is contagious, but what about obesity? Can you catch it from your family or your friends? Actually YES ! Researchers at Harvard Medical School studied 12,000 people over a 32 year period and found that social connections impact your chance of gaining weight. If your spouse becomes obese, you have…
Obese Children Need Help Not New Parents!
By
Linda Mintle
I am weighing in on the ridiculous position of a physician and lawyer who argue that extremely obese children in dangerously poor health should be placed in foster care. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) should never have printed the opinions of these two people who posit foster care is a more ethical…
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