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elocs

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6. It's the American Way--always wanting a drug as an easy solution for all our problems.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:50 PM
Jun 8

I remember an old Twilight Zone episode that I just can't find on a search because the wrong episode ("To Serve Man&quot keeps coming up. But it's one where people would take a drug (?) which allowed them to eat as much as they liked without gaining weight and it worked great. The TZ fly in the ointment was that it didn't allow them to absorb any needed nutrients from the food they were eating so in reality they were starving to death while gorging themselves.

Our weight problem is the result of SAD, the Standard American Diet and we are reaping the consequences of how the big food companies say we should eat, like eating sugary cereal for breakfast each day.

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