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Chocolate cake, a sizzling steak, sweet potato fries, bacon and eggs: think of all the wonderful tasty foods that we enjoy and hanker after like a booze hound thirsts for drink. When you feel insecure, threatened, or depressed, the urge to eat sugary, fatty food may drive you to a megacalorie eating binge. As a nation, we Americans turn to high calorie food in large quantities and have done so for about thirty years. CDC began looking at state-level prevalence of obesity around 1999 when Mokdad et al. published an astonishing map of the states’ percents of adult obesity and followed up the following year with a later map that showed spread of high prevalence from the original focus.
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Wallace, D., Wallace, R. (2018). Obesity and Diabetes. In: Right-to-Work Laws and the Crumbling of American Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72784-4_8
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