Penn & Teller - The Obesity Epidemic is "Bullshit!"

Penn and Teller tackle the "Obesity Epidemic" in this episode of their awesome (and profane) show "Bullshit!".  

• Obesity is not a contagious disease or an "epidemic"
• Weight is not a good indicator of an individual's health
• We don't actually know how to get good, permanent weight loss results
• BMI was invented by a mathematician in the 1800s for the purpose of statistical analysis of large populations... it wasn't intended to indicate health or how much any individual "should" weigh relative to their height.
• Drug companies and companies who push weight loss programs have a pretty huge interest in making sure weight loss techniques don't work (who'da thunk it?).

Check it out. 

~Jessica Franzoi

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