Anyone who’s seen the documentary Supersize Me is likely to remember Morgan Spurlock’s food decay experiment.

But further examination revealed that fat and salt could be the actual ingredients keeping Mickey D’s grub pristine well beyond the point when real food breaks down.

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Many people prefer not to tell anyone about their surgery plan, as they feel embarrassed. “I personally think it’s less to do with evidence and more to do with slight moralism; ‘well, you should be able to lose weight in other ways'”, Clinical Psychologist Frances Carter told NZPA.

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In the largest study of childhood obesity ever conducted in the city, 40% of kindergartners through eighth-graders – more than 250,000 kids – were found to be too heavy.

Big study of childhood obesity shows 40% of New York City students are too heavy