In 2019, we lost more than 14,000 Americans to firearm homicide and more than 36,000 to car accidents. As a point of comparison, every year, diet contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths in the U.S., due to nutrition- and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. In the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in adults, tripled in children, and quadrupled in adolescents. While of course some of these conditions have genetic components, there is no ques...
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