The Los Angeles Times, whose newrsoom is about to get much thinner, offers up a handy ten-point primer on why we all got so fat.
1. It’s the stress.
2. No. It’s a virus.
3. It has something to do with the temperature.
4. It’s all that high-fructose corn syrup.
5. It’s eating too much low-fat food.
6. It’s too many drugs.
7. It’s our parents’ fault, like everything else.
8.It’s all the pollution.
9. It’s too little sleep.
10. I knew we shouldn’t have quit smoking.
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