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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As with many complex phenomena, it's obviously a combination of systemic failures and individual choices. We can't really control things like subsidies to the junk food industrial complex, but we do have some control over our individual choices. That is the point. When you go to a Super Walmart and spend your money on soda, that's a choice.[/quote]

Yes, exactly.  It's many things, but the only one we can control is what we eat.[/quote]

What we eat, by carefully weighing and measuring it all, to make sure we are inside of the narrow band of allowable calories that will maintain a healthy weight, despite the signals from your body that that's not enough, because that's what your hunger hormones are telling you. The level of control required of weight loss maintainers is significant. [/quote]

You cannot claim that all obese people have hormones telling them they are hungry all the time.  It is well known that many overweight people eat for emotional reasons - not because they are hungry.  Stress, anxiety, relationships, kids, work, depression, etc.  Go to any weight loss forum and you will hear people that eat because it makes them psychologically feel better, food is their best friend.  They eat well past the point of being satisfied from a physiological perspective.  They are feeding emotional needs.

That is why we also need more available mental health treatments in this country.  [/quote]

It’s not all drama. Food is entertainment.  And even good food is cheap compared to many hobbies.  So when rich people are bored they can pick up a game of golf or go shopping but when poor people are bored they can eat chips.

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