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What a disgusting attitude you have. If it were as easy as you say, everyone would just do it. 36% of US adults are considered obese. It's obviously a lot mor

What a disgusting attitude you have. If it were as easy as you say, everyone would just do it. 36% of US adults are considered obese. It's obviously a lot more complicated and harder than taking "simple" advice.

bhouston 10y ago
I think sugar is additive, like tobacco, and with lots of bad health outcomes and because it is additive that is why it is hard to cut it out. Watch the movie Sugar Coated for one take on this line of reasoning. It likely is as easy as cutting sugar out, just like smokers should cut cigarettes out, it is just hard to do because of the additives qualities of the drugs. And like cigarettes, cutting down isn't really as effective as cutting it out nearly entirely, because a little bit of an additive drugs primes you for more.
throwaway5834 10y ago
Hold on, you have a giant non sequitur. For example, suppose the conversation were about entrepreneurship, and your parent comment maintained that anybody coudl start a corporation "easily" and for about $100. Now, suppose you replied: >If it were as easy as you say, everyone would just do it. 97% of US adults have never owned a company. >It's obviously a lot more complicated and harder than taking "simple" advice. First, why am I using this example. Because we can all agree that actually, yes, anyone can pretty much start a corporation for $100. It's true. It's also true that 99% of people don't. That doesn't make starting a corporation 'harder'. It takes certain steps, and you have to go through with it. Whether 1%, 5%, 10%, or 75% of people have tried starting companies, has no impact on its difficulty. Likewise, whether 20%, 30%, 50%, or 90% of people are obese, does not influence the dfificulty of not being obese. Perhaps in the future only 1/10 people will be able to maintain an athletic, fit, weight. Perhaps they will have to throw away 80% of what they're served at restaurants, because they simply cannot order anything that does not have 2500 calories, whereas they want to eat 500. This is not far from the status quo in America. So, while it is certainly "easy" in a sense not to overeat, it's only "easy" in the same way as starting a corporation is "easy". It's easy on paper. If your parent argues that people should 'just do it' -- he's probably right.
toasterlovin 10y ago
That 36% of US adults are considered obese does not make it obvious that losing weight is any more complicated than cutting sugar & carbs. First, "common sense" dietary advise is that fats are bad. That's why you see foods marketed as low-fat. Because common sense dietary advice has been focused on the wrong thing (fat instead of sugar/carbs), most people's conception of "eating healthy" is wrong. Second, the route to being financially healthy and stable is incredibly simple: spend significantly less that you make. Yet some how a huge percentage of people in the US spend beyond their means. Could it not also be the case with cutting sugar & carbs that even if people actually knew what they needed to do, they still would not do it?

bhouston 10y ago

I think sugar is additive, like tobacco, and with lots of bad health outcomes and because it is additive that is why it is hard to cut it out. Watch the movie Sugar Coated for one take on this line of reasoning. It likely is as easy as cutting sugar out, just like smokers should cut cigarettes out, it is just hard to do because of the additives qualities of the drugs. And like cigarettes, cutting down isn't really as effective as cutting it out nearly entirely, because a little bit of an additive drugs primes you for more.

throwaway5834 10y ago

Hold on, you have a giant non sequitur. For example, suppose the conversation were about entrepreneurship, and your parent comment maintained that anybody coudl start a corporation "easily" and for about $100. Now, suppose you replied: >If it were as easy as you say, everyone would just do it. 97% of US adults have never owned a company. >It's obviously a lot more complicated and harder than taking "simple" advice. First, why am I using this example. Because we can all agree that actually, yes, anyone can pretty much start a corporation for $100. It's true. It's also true that 99% of people don't. That doesn't make starting a corporation 'harder'. It takes certain steps, and you have to go through with it. Whether 1%, 5%, 10%, or 75% of people have tried starting companies, has no impact on its difficulty. Likewise, whether 20%, 30%, 50%, or 90% of people are obese, does not influence the dfificulty of not being obese. Perhaps in the future only 1/10 people will be able to maintain an athletic, fit, weight. Perhaps they will have to throw away 80% of what they're served at restaurants, because they simply cannot order anything that does not have 2500 calories, whereas they want to eat 500. This is not far from the status quo in America. So, while it is certainly "easy" in a sense not to overeat, it's only "easy" in the same way as starting a corporation is "easy". It's easy on paper. If your parent argues that people should 'just do it' -- he's probably right.

toasterlovin 10y ago

That 36% of US adults are considered obese does not make it obvious that losing weight is any more complicated than cutting sugar & carbs. First, "common sense" dietary advise is that fats are bad. That's why you see foods marketed as low-fat. Because common sense dietary advice has been focused on the wrong thing (fat instead of sugar/carbs), most people's conception of "eating healthy" is wrong. Second, the route to being financially healthy and stable is incredibly simple: spend significantly less that you make. Yet some how a huge percentage of people in the US spend beyond their means. Could it not also be the case with cutting sugar & carbs that even if people actually knew what they needed to do, they still would not do it?