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How Did All These ‘Hungry’ People Get So Fat?

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!” News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.” But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at the Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same …

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The Science is Never Settled

“…The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified…” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

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Do They Want Fat Kids ‘cuz COVID Will Kill Them?

The body positive are at higher risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Above-average weight also makes you more likely to be or become diabetic, and that, too, can lead to severe infection and death.  Is that why the CDC just changed the BMI charts defining obesity in children?

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Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – #14 – No, I’m Not Affirming Your “Body Positivity” When You’re Fat

Once again, we see that the “Wokeness” crowd going after a model because they can’t be one (reformatted, emphasis mine): ‘Feels Like A Threat’: Sydney Sweeney’s Tiny Outfit At Award Show Riles Up ‘Body Positivity’ Activists A Yahoo! Life writer questioned actress Sydney Sweeney’s fashion choice at the MTV Movie and TV Awards, not over concerns …

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There Is Dumb … And Then There Is Sherry Frost Dumb

There is dumb and then there is Sherry Frost dumb. The vast majority of deaths and hospitalizations reported as due to COVID involve a comorbidity, and obesity is the most frequent comorbidity. From CNBC, anything but a conservative bastion: