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edmund_the_destroyer wrote (edited )

I have no reason to doubt the results of the study.

However, their discussion omitted the fact that most people who lose more than 10% of their starting body weight regain it within five years. Taking a fat person to thin and keeping them there is likely to fail, contrary to what the billion dollar diet and fitness industry tries to sell you.

Most people I knew who lost a substantial amount of weight and kept it off over a long term are retirees. They don't have the physical and especially mental and emotional burdens of a job. They don't have financial worries. They spent time exercising, and going for walks, and gardening for fun, and building things with their hands for the joy of it. They savor their meals and notice when they are satiated instead of shoveling down food before being forced to shoulder their next burden.

I really think capitalism caused the obesity epidemic.

(Edit: I split some run-on sentences into separate sentences.)

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_caspar_ wrote

while I overall agree, factors such as jobs increasingly requiring folks to sit or stand for hours on end has been huge. I think by far the worst factor is how shitty food has become in places like the u.s. over the last 100 years (peaking at probably the 90s-early 00s) in terms of processing, additives, declines in nutritional value, etc. hell, Im surprised I dont have much worse health considering how terrible the school cafeteria food was all throughout grade school.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

I agree with everything you wrote.

The cafeteria food my kids have is actually pretty tasty, but it's absurdly expensive. The cafeteria food from my childhood was bad, so I packed lunch every day.

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