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As with any other nation, France has its share of fat people. There is certainly a perception, even among Americans, that Americans are fatter than most other nationalities. But we aren't out of the ordinary in this regard compared to other, ahem, *developed* nations.
I've heard the traditional Ethiopian diet melts the fat right off...
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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