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Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research: Science Characterizes the Current State of America as 'Obecity, USA'
May 07, 2021
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 7 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release on May 6, 2021:

Welcome to "Obecity, USA": the fastest-growing place in the world. Where fast-food restaurants outnumber grocery stores six to one, and a third of all TV ads promote junk food. Where tacos cost less than apples and school cafeteria pizza counts as a vegetable. Where portion sizes are four times larger than t . . .

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