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Honestly, the human body just isn't built to lose weight. We're built for starvation and packing on as much as we can, while we can. Humanity is just a victim o
by rpazyaquian 9y ago
Honestly, the human body just isn't built to lose weight. We're built for starvation and packing on as much as we can, while we can. Humanity is just a victim of its own success with the sheer plentiful amount of food that's available now, at least in the first world.
Working as intended, WONTFIX, etc. Obesity at this stage of our civilization is not abnormal. It sucks, but it isn't abnormal.
- rpazyaquian 9y agoTo add to this: this is 90% behavioral in nature. We like food, eating food makes us feel good, therefore we eat food and snack constantly. Obviously, you'd do it - it's like getting a hit off your favorite drug. If it didn't give us that high, we wouldn't do it.
- atomical 9y agoBut if we could remove that feeling with a drug, would we want to? Could we find enough pleasure in other things to keep us satisfied?
- bcoughlan 9y agoIt bothers me to see three or four comments saying there's no point in trying to lose weight go unchallenged. Widespread obesity is a recent development in our society. And it's not caused by the abundance of our wealth, as the poor are most affected. Rather it is caused by outsourcing cooking from the family to corporations, whose incentives are at odds with our health. They make fattening, craveable, nutritionally deficient food, and work hard to ensure that we and our kids are confused about what is healthy, while making sure that their products are always more available and convenient than planning and cooking meals. Society has only turned this way in the last two generations, and it can be fixed. We are not doomed by biology.