4 ms·

This is ideology, and not a very useful one either. Humans are just animals, and despite the illusion of will power and decisions and all that other junk, we e

This is ideology, and not a very useful one either. Humans are just animals, and despite the illusion of will power and decisions and all that other junk, we eat as we do because 500,000 years ago our ancestors risked famine constantly. We're optimized against lack of calories, and not optimized for excess calories at all. What this means is that, for the vast majority of people, if you have it to put it in your face, you will, and while you can occasionally refuse this, you won't do so often enough to matter unless your a "fitness" fetishist (fit for what?).

MisterBastahrd 11y ago
The vast majority of people are not obese, yet they have 24/7 access to food. Seems like there's a disconnect in your reasoning there.
- DanBC 11y ago
  > The vast majority of people are not obese, Obesity rates in the US are pretty high. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/Pages/overweight-obesity-statistics.aspx http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistic... > More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese. > More than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese. > More than 1 in 20 adults are considered to have extreme obesity. > About one-third of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be overweight or obese. > More than 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be obese.
- dragonwriter 11y ago
  > The vast majority of people are not obese, yet they have 24/7 access to food. The vast majority of people in the world do not have access to bountiful food. In the US, where the vast majority do have such access, an absolute majority are at least overweight, and more than a third are obese.
  - MisterBastahrd 11y ago
    I'm speaking in the context of the Western world, because we aren't particularly interested in studies of the indigent. The US is overweight because of the quality and quantity of food they eat. And 66%? That's a vast majority.

MisterBastahrd 11y ago

The vast majority of people are not obese, yet they have 24/7 access to food. Seems like there's a disconnect in your reasoning there.

DanBC 11y ago
> The vast majority of people are not obese, Obesity rates in the US are pretty high. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/Pages/overweight-obesity-statistics.aspx http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistic... > More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese. > More than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese. > More than 1 in 20 adults are considered to have extreme obesity. > About one-third of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be overweight or obese. > More than 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be obese.
dragonwriter 11y ago
> The vast majority of people are not obese, yet they have 24/7 access to food. The vast majority of people in the world do not have access to bountiful food. In the US, where the vast majority do have such access, an absolute majority are at least overweight, and more than a third are obese.
- MisterBastahrd 11y ago
  I'm speaking in the context of the Western world, because we aren't particularly interested in studies of the indigent. The US is overweight because of the quality and quantity of food they eat. And 66%? That's a vast majority.