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| Across the developed world, the richer people are, the thinner they tend to be—but the correlation between wealth and weight holds only for women. Why? Alice Fulwood, The Economist’s Wall Street correspondent, reveals the secret economics of thinness. Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI Read more about the secret economics of thinness: https://econ.st/43fAo6x For our summer reads: https://econ.st/43fRtgY Could new drugs spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic?: https://econ.st/43etVsE A new class of drugs for weight loss: https://econ.st/43tWeTW Are overweight politicians less trustworthy?: https://econ.st/3qkHlVs |
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