alt Hacker NewsI don't know people who just give the "trite" advice without any actual consideration of the difficulty.
I do see a lot of people ITT who were accused of doing so but who aren't actually doing so.
And I've known quite a few people who get really annoyed at constantly having to hear about how impossible it is to do things that they've personally actually done.
it might be still impossible for others. tell a blind person to just look out for cars. tell a person with paralyzed legs to just get up and walk. tell a type 1 diabetic to just skip insulin.
obesity has a large hereditary component. important genes associated with obesity are expressed in the brain.
is it impossible to live with constant hunger and its consequences? no, likely not, but it's not really a big mystery why millions of people fail to do so.