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HuffPo Claims Being Obese is As Costly As Not Going to College, and I Can’t Decide If They’re More Fat Shaming or Victim Blaming.

“Being Obese Almost As Costly As Not Going To College”: That’s HuffPo’s way to sum up a Swedish study that found out that being “obese” is as “costly” (i.e. less income) as missing out on 3 years of college level education. The researchers came up with an interesting hypothesis:  They hypothesized that the gap was due …

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