alt Hacker NewsOf course they aren't genetically pre-ordained to lack willpower. That's why they could stop being fat, if only they chose to. The issue is cultural, not genetic. You don't go from 12% obesity to 40% obesity in 40 years due to a genetic shift, but rather a cultural one.
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What evidence do you have that it is a cultural shift, rather than, say, a chemical in the environment that wasn't there before, or a difference in the food supply?
The real shift happened in what BigFood started putting into their highly processed food, imho.
America is more obese than many nations but obesity is increasing the world over.
The timing is just about right to blame it on Reagan, either the theory that neoliberalism leads to "structured stress" or than some environmental chemical got approved in that time frame.
> That's why they could stop being fat, if only they chose to.
This seems like one of those "replication crisis" claims.
> That's why they could stop being fat, if only they chose to.
So they're pre-ordained not to?
I have a loved one who certainly chooses to, to the point of having had bariatric surgery; GLPs have been an important follow-up. It's really not as simple as you make it out to be.
> You don't go from 12% obesity to 40% obesity in 40 years due to a genetic shift, but rather a cultural one.
What if that cultural one is letting the processed foods industry engineer everything to be deeply addicting?