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The problem is that your body is highly adapted for survival, and it frickin' loves calories, and we have a food industry that has perfected the process of putting as many calories into as small a package as possible, with a composition that sends your brain hormones into overdrive and tells you to shove as much of it into your face as you can.

Obesity is epidemic in our society because the food available to us presses all the "this feels good" buttons. Most people eat what feels good to them; the healthiest are the ones who intentionally restrict themselves from eating what their brains tell them they should be eating.

[Memebook]

Perhaps. That's one story.

Another possible angle, we're so out of touch with our bodies, our emotions, our very selves. That we've essentially numbed ourselves to the signals that our body's constantly sending us.

Sitting children down in neat little rows for 16 years, while hammering them into preconceived form; no play, no socialization, no getting to know self, this seems to have a deleterious effect on their awareness.

Funny thing is that I subscribed to that often-repeated theory, and it may not be wrong, after all, that story does make sense. However, when I started to be mindful, I began to notice that sugar doesn't feel that great and it's kinda gross same goes when I ate too much meat. Just the simple act of noticing has led me to a healthier diet. The hardest part was relearning how to be present and aware, the rest is gravy.

Makes me wonder how much bullshit we've been fed over the years about ourselves.