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Why Defend Being Overweight?

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I recognize the oped editors' imperative need for #Slatepitch contrarianism, but this AM's New York Times editorial-page defense of overweight does not even have the virtue of perverse originality.

Over the past century, Americans have become increasingly obsessed with the supposed desirability of thinness, as thinness has become both a marker...

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