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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I know there's a politically-motivated argument that it's all down to personal choice, but honestly the "willpower" argument is just silly
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Of the many explanations, the idea that humanity has entirely lost its collective willpower over the course of just 30 years is by far and away the least likely
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Seriously, it took us 100,000s of years of evolution to get to this point, but our brains have entirely shifted in a few decades? It's ridiculous
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Is it more likely that we've changed our brain chemistry in some fundamental way, or that our evolved patterns are not ideal for a changing environment?
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In my life, computers have gone from a seldom-seen luxury to a ubiquitous part of life, smartphones have been invented and spread like wildfire, etc etc etc But you think willpower is the thing that's changed? Absurd
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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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