[skeezyboy]

> It's great because we had no other way to address this problem at a population level. Not any realistic ones, anyway.

um, go out and exercise? compared to your ancestors from a century ago, you live a relative life of luxury. THIS IS WHY YOU ARE FAT. Too much food in, not enough burning calories. So simple. Im sure there are people who are clinically fat, broken metabolism, but there are tens of millions of obese in the USA alone, are they all metabollically disabled? I doubt it

[radiofreeeuropa]

Yep, overeating (and, to some degree, not enough moving around) is the reason. True.

But “just personally do better” doesn’t work very well when applied as a medical intervention (they have tried, and checked, over and over, a hundred different ways), even with lots of follow-up and monitoring, and it also doesn’t appear to be how other countries manage to be skinnier than the US. Between those two things, it really doesn’t look like a viable way to solve the obesity crisis—it doesn’t work when we try it, and it doesn’t seem to be what’s working anywhere else.

[desert_rue]

It has more to do with the American food supply than anything else. The obesity rate skyrocketed as we started to consume food-like substances instead of food.

Strip out all the signals that let the body know it has enough, and it is easier to overeat.