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Acupuncture Weight Loss - Fact or Fantasy? by: Brian B. Carter, MS, LAc I remember back in my senior year of high school - my best friend since 5th grade was living in France. He wrote that they didn't like Americans much. 'They think we're all fat,' he said. With his own skinny frame, of course, he confounded their belief. But, he added a funny, or perhaps ironic capstone to the issue. 'I went to a store, and they were selling statues of these fat people, and, at the base of each one was written, 'American.'' Obesity is not only an American problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it's a global problem. They call it globesity. Parodoxically, their understanding of this problem began with their original mission to eliminate hunger and malnutrition. We live in a world where many have nothing to eat, and many eat too much. From 1995 to '2000
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