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What If No One In America Were Fat?
“A leaner, meaner country add up to a weighty $487 billion. That’s almost 3.5% of gross domestic product, no small sum.”
“Add up the savings up on health, food, clothing and efficiencies, and you could buy a professional home gym for every U.S. household — or hand each $4,270 in cash.”
“Assuming we didn’t behave like angels, the net effect on the economy of a slimmer population would be a lot of reshuffled resources, with a nice rise in productivity that should take our living standards up a notch.”
