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I’m not a doctor or scientist but indeed, I could imagine that psychologically obesity is often similar to a drug addiction. So yes, help similar to alcohol or

I’m not a doctor or scientist but indeed, I could imagine that psychologically obesity is often similar to a drug addiction. So yes, help similar to alcohol or drug addicts would likely help a lot. But that’s the thing. For me it’s easy not to shoot heroin or drink 20 beers. For addicts it’s incredibly hard not to. And not for a lack of wanting to quit; they have a disease, maybe they’re on drugs to alleviate the mental pain of issues from their youth or whatever. And just like anti drug advice isn’t “well stop putting that needle in your arm, simple isn’t it?”, anti obesity advice isn’t “stop putting that cheeseburger in your mouth”.

burnerburnito 5y ago
Fair perspective. What I felt compelled about is that it seemed like the message was "we shouldn't tell people to stop" simply because they won't comply, whereas to me applying social pressure is a part of the education and prevention, as well as motivating people to stop by annoyance and embarassment. I'm a little short on time, so I'll also concisely say that at first I referenced addiction almost as if to show similarities and contrasts (i didn't fully consider it a real one), but now on further thought it really does seem like a true addiction...