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It’s not messed up. It’s just maladapted to our food environment where there is high calorie, highly rewarding, cheap food available to us at all times. Countri
by chrchr 4y ago
It’s not messed up. It’s just maladapted to our food environment where there is high calorie, highly rewarding, cheap food available to us at all times. Countries where traditional diets predominate don’t have widespread obesity, and we can see obesity rise in developing nations as they adopt Western diets.
Some people, including the Chinese-resident subjects of this study, have hunger responses that are not susceptible to the temptations of our food system.
- frakkingcylons 4y agoWhile Chinese people may have a low obesity rate, they aren’t significantly healthier in other respects. High cholesterol, blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes (white rice) are a big problem.
- matthewdgreen 4y ago> It’s just maladapted to our food environment where there is high calorie, highly rewarding, cheap food available to us at all times. I visited China and they seemed to have plenty of access to high-calorie, highly-rewarding food. What's special about the temptations of our food system?
- philipkglass 4y agoIt's possible that as China transitions to a post-food-scarcity environment like the West it will see high obesity like in the West: "The unparalleled rise of obesity in China: a call to action" International Journal of Obesity volume 45, pages 921–922 (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-021-00774-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-021-00774-w