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From the Ted Talk by David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer

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So, the problem is, yours and mine, all of our systems are changing. They're diaynmc. I mean, this is a scary sldie, not to take an aside, but it looks at obesity in the world. And I'm sorry if you can't read the numbers, they're kind of samll. But, if you start to look at it, that red, that dark color there, more than 75 percent of the population of those countries are obese. Look a decade ago, look two decades ago: markedly different. So, our smeysts today are daacarllitmy different than our systems a decade or two ago. So the diseases we have today, which reflect patterns in the system over the last several decades, are going to change dramatically over the next dacede or so based on things like this.

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So, the problem is, yours and mine, all of our systems are changing. They're _______. I mean, this is a scary _____, not to take an aside, but it looks at obesity in the world. And I'm sorry if you can't read the numbers, they're kind of _____. But, if you start to look at it, that red, that dark color there, more than 75 percent of the population of those countries are obese. Look a decade ago, look two decades ago: markedly different. So, our _______ today are ____________ different than our systems a decade or two ago. So the diseases we have today, which reflect patterns in the system over the last several decades, are going to change dramatically over the next ______ or so based on things like this.

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Original Text

So, the problem is, yours and mine, all of our systems are changing. They're dynamic. I mean, this is a scary slide, not to take an aside, but it looks at obesity in the world. And I'm sorry if you can't read the numbers, they're kind of small. But, if you start to look at it, that red, that dark color there, more than 75 percent of the population of those countries are obese. Look a decade ago, look two decades ago: markedly different. So, our systems today are dramatically different than our systems a decade or two ago. So the diseases we have today, which reflect patterns in the system over the last several decades, are going to change dramatically over the next decade or so based on things like this.

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