Always feel weird when people say "I don't think it is willpower that's causing the obesity epidemic...maybe it's the environment!" because: a) Research has been pointing that way for decades and b) It seems fairly obvious
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Of course, all of this is without the abundant research that demonstrates that the single biggest factor in obesity is your lived environment (then genes, health, ethnicity, other social factors, and somewhere way down the list is willpower)
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References in case you're interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981805/ … https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/overweight-obesity/interactive-insight-into-overweight-and-obesity/contents/how-many-people-are-overweight-or-obese … https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673605711466 … https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo201364 …
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As one ~tiny~ example, there's decent evidence that having more fast food in relation to healthy options makes it more likely that people nearby will be obese https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829217303301 …
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Interesting analogy - both supply convenience. Not sure if it's quite the same since food is a basic human need. Maybe the supply of certain fashions is a better analogy. Do we necessarily demand skinny jeans/etc? Or does fashion environment change and we buy what's available
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Oh those are just the two examples that came most quickly to me. A food-based one would be the increasingly low cost and ease of availability for ultraprocessed foods which were much rarer when I was a child
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My point: Whatever your stance on personal responsibility, the idea that it is a primary driver of obesity is silly, for a variety of reasons
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