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One of the ways I express why I wrote "Fat Boy Thin Man" is to say that if you and I canvassed any random group about "solutions" to obesity, they wouldn't respond with anything like my experience. Since my experience works (for me), and the best-known "solutions" don't seem to be solving much, I figure I have valuable information to share.

The canvassing part is intended metaphorically, but now, the Harris Poll has asked 2,418 adults, and found that Americans deem "surgery the most effective method, followed by prescription drugs, then drugs and diet-food supplements obtained over-the-counter," according to a synopsis from edreferral.com.

This is, of course, completely absurd. What are medicines for? They are supposed to help with illnesses. What is surgery for? Really serious illness. And yet, how many of these people would say they have an illness? 

One of the quirks of that is that I would say that many obese people do have an illness — food addiction. (Not all fat people are food addicts, and I'm not saying they are.) But so far as I know, addiction is not curable, and certainly isn't curable by drugs or surgery.


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