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MEDICAL OPINION SWINGS. "The AMA is just the latest organization to put obesity in its category of diseases, joining the World Health Organization, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and others." https://lnkd.in/d6WkEAC View in LinkedIn

NO LONGER A SOCIAL STIGMA. "Obesity is not a social stigma but an actual disease." https://lnkd.in/des_Tnv View in LinkedIn

US PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER. "Two out of three adults and one out of three children in the United States are overweight or obese, and the nation spends an estimated $190 billion a year treating obesity-related health conditions." http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sugary-drinks-fact-sheet/ View in LinkedIn

MINIMAL ENERGY. "The spherical shape of a soap bubble nicely displays the principle of energy minimization. Surface tension causes the bubble to form a sphere because this shape, as proposed by Archimedes and proven rigorously by Schwarz in 1884, is the minimal surface enclosing a fixed given volume." https://lnkd.in/dB43fJY View in LinkedIn

OBESITY OVERLOAD. "Look at the waistlines of America, and you can see snacking is a growth business," says John McMillin, food analyst for Prudential Securities. The rate of obesity in the United States soared by 50 percent in the last decade, with nearly one in five Americans now seriously overweight. Poor diet and lack of exercise is second only to cigarette smoking as a leading cause of death in America." http://www.newsweek.com/bring-junk-food-161601 View in LinkedIn

"A TRUE MINIMAL SURFACE is more properly illustrated by a soap film, which has equal pressure on inside as outside, hence is a surface with zero mean curvature. A soap bubble is a closed soap film: due to the difference in outside and inside pressure, it is a surface of constant mean curvature." https://lnkd.in/d5zN4He View in LinkedIn

WORLDWIDE OBESITY DOUBLES. "Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 600 million were obese. 42 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2013." https://lnkd.in/db6_hrx View in LinkedIn

MINIMAL SURFACE PROBLEM. "Soap bubbles are physical examples of the complex mathematical problem of minimal surface. They will assume the shape of least surface area possible containing a given volume." https://lnkd.in/d5zN4He View in LinkedIn

SNACK FOOD NATION. "America has become a snack food nation. More than ever, "meals" are being consumed behind the wheel of a car ... "Dashboard dining". http://www.newsweek.com/bring-junk-food-161601 View in LinkedIn

GEOMETRY OF SOAP BUBBLES. "If a soap film does not contain any bubbles, it can be called a minimal surface. A minimal surface is characterized by having a total curvature equal to zero in every point. This means that for all points on the surface, if the surface is curving with a certain amount in one direction, at the same point the surface will also have to curve with minus the same amount in the normal direction." https://lnkd.in/dirhQBH View in LinkedIn