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by tsunamifury 3332 days ago
Environment. Its easy to overcome the psychological issues of eating when you are happy and relatively healthy already and in a safe environment. Put yourself in a hyper-competitive environment with high risk and low reward ratios and you can watch everyone start having food issues. That seem initially seemed to be just tech, but no increasingly is America at large.
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> That seem initially seemed to be just tech, but no increasingly is America at large.

That doesn't seem to be the case at all, in my experience. In fact, out of all the white collar industries my friends and I are involved in, tech makes a healthy lifestyle the easiest by a loooongshot. This is part of a cultural feedback loop that also involves people's habits: probably 95% of the tech workers I know regularly exercise and are opinionated about their diet.

This may be a regional thing though; I live in the second fittest city in the country.

I wouldn't call it easy, but at least possible :)