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at140

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1. We are the most obese country in the world!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Jul 24, 2020, 10:57 AM

Jul 2020

Food shortages could reduce our healthcare costs. I recall reading that during depression years of 1930,
Americans generally had fewer heart attacks and strokes and diabetes.

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Report Finds Food Insecurity Could Rise By Up To 60% In The D.C. Region Amid The Pandemic [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 OP

We are the most obese country in the world! at140 Jul 2020 #1

Fat bashing is that all you got I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #3

Why self-destructive behavior deserves empathy? at140 Jul 2020 #7

I guess you would like to let depressed people kill I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #10

I have heard I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #2

I like that solution to the Moscow Mitch problem IronLionZion Jul 2020 #5

Every dollar donated to a food bank can feed up to 10 people IronLionZion Jul 2020 #4

I didn't know DC was so wealthy jimfields33 Jul 2020 #6

DC and surrounds have amazing wealth at140 Jul 2020 #8

REGIONAL, elleng Jul 2020 #9