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With 33% of adults and 17% of children obese, the U.S. is facing an obesity epidemic. A major risk factor for expensive, chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, it costs our health care system nearly $150 billion a year.
Should government intervene, or is this a matter of individual rights and personal responsibility?
Bob Barr
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Jeffrey Rosen
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Nadine Strossen
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