> Plenty of people have lost weight sustainably with diet and exercising. It just doesn't seem to work with everyone. The problem is, staying healthy is a mat

> Plenty of people have lost weight sustainably with diet and exercising. It just doesn't seem to work with everyone. The problem is, staying healthy is a matter of privilege. You need to be able to afford to eat healthy (ultra-processed industrial food that's loaded with sugar is often much cheaper than quality produce), even if you have money, a decent chunk of Americans live in areas that are classified as "food deserts" [1], even if you are not in a food desert you still need to be able and have time to get to a store selling quality food, and you need someone with time available to cook healthy meals out of that. It used to be easier back in the time where one income was enough to feed a whole family and the women stayed as housewifes to actually do that, but these times are (thankfully) long gone. Exercising suffers from similar "problems of privilege". Either you got the money and time to spare to go to a gym, or you got the money and space in your home to install your own gym... or you need actually safe roads where you can walk, jog or bike, and most of the US is so utterly car-dependent that it is outright unsafe to walk. And on top of that you got the whole "living while Black" issue, with egregious instances like a pregnant Black woman arrested for walking her dog [2] - it's no surprise that the Black and Indigenous population has noticeably higher rates of diabetes [3] or oral health issues [4]. And on top of that, you got the whole issue with educating children about healthy foods, their parents being too poor to afford healthy foods, and that setting up these children for childhood obesity which perpetuates into adulthood. A lot of that is closely correlated with ethnicity and wealth as well. It's a systemic issue, an insanely complex one at that, with no easy solution to be found - and certainly not a failure of any individual to stay healthy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_in_the_United_Sta... [2] https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pregnant-black-woman-ticketed-walking-195434227.html https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pregnant-black-woman-ticketed-walk... [3] https://healthequitytracker.org/exploredata?mls=1.diabetes-3.00 https://healthequitytracker.org/exploredata?mls=1.diabetes-3... [4] https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/Documents/Pubs//160-001-OralHlthBurdenDisparities.pdf https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/Documents/Pubs...