>Sad that the obvious route (diet and exercise) is skipped by so many people, who just want to continue their unhealthy lifestyles but not suffer the physical consequences of it.
Food has a different effects on different bodies with different mental state and neurochemistry. Pleasurable foods can be as addictive as recreational drugs. Is it really fair to blame it on people? When somebody can't stop using cocaine, we don't call them undisciplined, we call them addicts.
It is far better for somebody to use a crutch to lose weight than remain fat and significantly damage their health in turn reducing their lifespan. Increasing tax on unhealthy foods and reducing sugar is still a work in progress. The long term goal is to nudge people into healthier foods such that the cycle of addiction is harder to start.
With the collapse of traditional gender roles, both the man and a woman in a typical family are now working full time. It's harder particularly for the lower class to eat healthily when there's nobody to prepare meals. If that problem were solved, we'd be a big step closer to solving obesity.
Food has a different effects on different bodies with different mental state and neurochemistry. Pleasurable foods can be as addictive as recreational drugs. Is it really fair to blame it on people? When somebody can't stop using cocaine, we don't call them undisciplined, we call them addicts.
It is far better for somebody to use a crutch to lose weight than remain fat and significantly damage their health in turn reducing their lifespan. Increasing tax on unhealthy foods and reducing sugar is still a work in progress. The long term goal is to nudge people into healthier foods such that the cycle of addiction is harder to start.
With the collapse of traditional gender roles, both the man and a woman in a typical family are now working full time. It's harder particularly for the lower class to eat healthily when there's nobody to prepare meals. If that problem were solved, we'd be a big step closer to solving obesity.