It was sweeping through neighborhoods and families were "losing everything" to it even as the criminal justice system rose up to manage it. Crack cocaine was the thing, and it rocked the cities and suburbs like nothing before it. Like a wildfire, it raced. With nearly 70 percent of American adults overweight or obese, food addiction is the new crack cocaine. Just as drug addiction has been labeled a disease, now so is obesity. Last month the American Medical Association declared obesity is a "multimetabolic and hormonal disease state." What a...
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