gturner wrote:

The CDC had already established that the obesity epidemic[...]
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Really?
Then you'll have no problem producing unambiguous evidence for this epidemic - peer reviewed papers, statistics, etc.
Let's see it.
I can, of course, produce unambiguous and redundant evidence that diet/lifestyle are the main causes of obesity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
Look at the papers quoted there - for starters.