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> Not unlike diabetes, celiac, or clinical depression.

The latter is, like obesity, considered a personal failing (being one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins, depending on when you look), and medical treatment elicits similar reactions — both against it being ‘too easy’, and in favour of wholesale societal restructuring instead (“That trick never works!” — Rocky the Flying Squirrel).




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