[Jaysun]

This is interesting given the fact that the CDC just published a study in the April 20 Journal of the American Medical Association that estimated the net death toll attributable to obesity to be 25,814 people per year.

This, of course, was quite a downward revision from CDC’s March 2004 claim that obesity caused about 400,000 deaths per year, approaching the toll estimated for smoking.

I think the hysteria over obesity, including the claims made in this article, are bullshit. Lots of liberal organizations such as Greenpeace have been discussing ways to eliminate cheap food (like obesity causing fast food) in order to further their usual plan to undermine America.

[Youngblood]

I heard the other day that there now a lot of disagreement about that result and that the real figures have been revised up again.