Being fat is no joke
The Los Angeles Times' beautiful story about the imprisonment of comic Billi Gordon by his own 700-lb body illustrates how obesity, a U.S. health epidemic, can take over someone's life.
The American Medical Association has found that obesity is the top preventable cause of death in this country. They write:
-- Kristen Millares Young
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