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Fact check. Knowing that heart disease was the number one cause of death in the US, I assumed the number of deaths would be high. At 300k deaths a year related to obesity, it is a high number, but no where near the number of deaths caused by wars that could be argued were caused by a person’s decision.

Thus it turns out my first statement was wrong. This is a good reminder to fact check before posting.



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