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> I think it’s crazy that the default outcome in our current modern environment if you follow your natural instincts is obesity. Clearly we need some regulation
by loeg 3y ago
> I think it’s crazy that the default outcome in our current modern environment if you follow your natural instincts is obesity. Clearly we need some regulation around how processed food must produce satiety and not just flavor, the current setup is not working.
I kind of agree, but people are irrationally attached to unhealthy, high caloric-density foods. If you tried to regulate away or even just tax ice cream, soda, and chips, people would riot in the streets. Regulating unhealthy food is extremely unpopular.
- acuozzo 3y agoRegulation wouldn't fix the underlying problem anyway. Plenty of food addicted persons get obese from eating gargantuan amounts of "normal" food. When I used to be obese, my weakness was sushi rice. Getting my binge-eating "high" required only a high quantity of food. Hell, I would eat a lot of Nori if I were desperate enough. Go to a Puerto Rican cookout in NYC and look at what the heavier persons are eating. They're not waiting until dessert time to start digging in. They're eating plate after plate of Arroz con Pollo.
- pixl97 3y ago>but people are irrationally attached to unhealthy I'd disagree, we are rationally attracted to these things because the state of pretty much all animal life has been boom/bust cycles of food. That's why our bodies get fat in the first place. A reserve for when the lean times come. Humans, bees, and ants are some of the few creatures that break this cycle well.
- loeg 3y agoYou're ascribing motivation and agency to evolutionary pressures. I'm talking about individual behavior. Evolution isn't rational or irrational.