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The word "lifestyle" might imply an amount of blame on individuals but we should not forget: - Healthy food is becoming increasingly expensive and seen as a lu
by goodpoint 4y ago
The word "lifestyle" might imply an amount of blame on individuals but we should not forget:
- Healthy food is becoming increasingly expensive and seen as a luxury. The amount of sugar and carbs in the "average" product has been increasing for decades.
- Working hours are becoming less equally distributed. A lot of people work way too much, even in highly skilled jobs like lawyers, medicine interns, game developers, while other work less.
- Worker rights are being rolled back and many working environments are becoming more competitive.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI think it's proof enough that individuals are the wrong place to focus, that people from much-skinnier countries who visit the US often report gaining quite a bit of weight, even if they try to keep it under control. How are the natives supposed to do any better than foreigners who are starting fairly trim and bringing healthy habits with them from home? The problem is clearly environmental/cultural and must run damned deep if it's that hard to avoid it. Which is terrible news because that's damn hard to fix without top-down initiatives, the likes of which the US has been allergic to since the '80s (though we didn't used to be). [EDIT] By "visit" I mean for years, not tourists.