The US. Department of Health and Human Services has said 33.1% of US citizens are extremely obese, 35.7% are just plain obese, and 6.3% are overweight. Why accept being obese, are they in denial that their physical condition is due to medication they are taking or some physical or genetic disposition they are powerless to do anything about? Are they refusing to believe they are obese and may have a problem, if they are not having them already? They cannot honestly believe ¾ of the population is overweight because of medication or some genetic condition, or is that a mechanism to stay in denial that they are obese because they acquiesce to that fact? If they were losing hair, or teeth they would not simply say ”I can’t help it, it is my medication”, they would do something to change medication of get off it, not just accept going bald or gumming their food.

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