# I unhappily report that I am right about obesity and diet (Very long)

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**Created:** [February 16, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-unhappily-report-that-i-am-right-about-obesity-and-diet-very-long/571543 "2011-02-16T04:25:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-unhappily-report-that-i-am-right-about-obesity-and-diet-very-long/571543/420 "2011-03-09T22:34:14Z")

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> [@Stoid](#):
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> Read the book: Taubes explains that fat people overeat because they are fat. They are not fat because they overeat.

Comedy. Fucking. Gold.

Does Taubes find some way to handwave away the explosion of obesity in the U.S. over the past couple of **decades** , or is he simply positing that more people magically become fat \*now \*(which forces them to shovel plates of \*\*tasty baked goods \*\*into their gaping maws)?

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