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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018

      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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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018

      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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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018

      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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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018

      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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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018

      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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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018

      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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    7. Chris‏ @cp_elevated 15 Nov 2018
      Replying to @GidMK

      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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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018
      Replying to @cp_elevated

      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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    9. Chris‏ @cp_elevated 15 Nov 2018
      Replying to @GidMK

      How about this analogy - driving environments influence driving behavior, not a personal decision to be a good/bad driver. Where I live, there are some obscenely wide roads w/45MPH limit. But most go 55+. I speculate that better road design could produce better drivers.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 15 Nov 2018
      Replying to @cp_elevated

      Indeed. Similarly, the biggest single road safety intervention was not educating drivers, it was forcing car manufacturers to put seatbelts in all their cars

      3:14 PM - 15 Nov 2018
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        1. Chris‏ @cp_elevated 15 Nov 2018
          Replying to @GidMK

          "seatbelts" on fast food (sugar tax, fat tax, etc) are unpopular where I live. I wonder what would happen if we fought bad convenience with good convenience. Why not make rice, beans, fruits, veggies free for everyone? There's less profit doing that though

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        1. Chris‏ @cp_elevated 15 Nov 2018
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          Good analogy too b/c cars increase convenience with a side of risk just like fast food does. Can you really fault willpower when work is 60 minutes away by public transport and the boss only gives you 30 minutes for lunch?

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