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blaming the foods for a person's lack of self-control is, as I said previously, incredibly foolish. c.f. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraor
by seiji 11y ago
blaming the foods for a person's lack of self-control is, as I said previously, incredibly foolish.
c.f. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...
burden ultimately rests on the consumer
Rests on the overworked, underpaid, isolated in food deserts, raising kids in the same environment, consumers. The average human isn't researching nutrition science, they just want to be happy. They eat what tastes good, have no time to exercise—they drive 3 hours a day—and then they go back to eating what tastes good.
Humans aren't brain-rational actors, they are gut-rational actors, and the gut is extremely short sighted and happy to offload trillions in future medical expenses onto future members of society (not to mention the national security risk of having 80% of your population rolling around in Jazzy Scooters and individually running up over a million dollars in weight-related medical bills in their lifetime).