Obesity is Not a Disease

And a pitch for a limited series

About twenty years ago I worked at a small hedge fund. One of my coworkers was rail thin and constantly eating. No three meals a day for this guy. He was eating something — yogurt, a banana, nuts, a protein bar — at least every two hours throughout the day, every day. When I made light one day of his apparent failure to put on weight amidst all his gluttonous…