[spudlyo]

Have you or someone you know ever willingly made a lasting and meaningful lifestyle change? Chances are it was very difficult. Food choices and behaviors are especially hard as they are sometimes cultural and deeply rooted in people's psyche.

Intelligent people have died from diabetes and other obesity related illnesses, not because they couldn't understand calorie math or what carbohydrates are, but because they couldn't or wouldn't change their eating habits in the long term.

[thefz]

Yes, absolutely I know some.

But I guess taking a medicine forever instead of not stuffing your face is easier because it requires zero user effort.

[dpig_]

Isn't it the point of human technologies to bring things as close to zero-effort as possible? Not sure why you need that to sound like an indictment.