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> It feels to me like there is something besides diet changes happening to us. Well sure, obesity is a result of a lot of factors, some genetic, but a lot of i

• bhouston 3y ago
  > a lot of it is the food environment surrounding people Yup. It is hard to pull all the factors apart because they contribute to each other. If you are obese, I understand it screws up your hormones which makes it easier to stay obese. Also if you have exposure to chemicals which cause you to have a tendency towards being obese you are more likely to seek out a bad food environment - e.g. crave McDonald's fries, etc. So you sort of just need to work on each factor and over time, it will change. For many, we already have significantly accumulations of forever chemicals or microplastics so it may take a generation to truly fix.
• seoulmetro 3y ago
  >The lack of easy access to healthy foods or education on how to buy and prepare them, plus economic pressures all play into this. This doesn't exist anywhere in the world. You either have easy access to healthy food or no access to food at all. Healthy food is so much cheaper, more abundant and easier to source in all situations than processed junk. The idea that people don't know how to eat healthy or can't afford to is a convenient lie.