Abstract
One of the few reasonably reliable facts about the obesity epidemic is that it started in the early 1980s. Any theory that tries to explain obesity in America has to account for this singular feature of the epidemic.
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Hamid, T.K. (2009). Tilting the Energy Balance: More Energy In. In: Thinking in Circles About Obesity. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09469-4_4
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