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SubmarineClubyesterday at 8:33 PM5 repliesview on HN

Nah, we’re still too soft on people. It’s really not hard to eat a healthy diet.


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jaggederestyesterday at 9:23 PM

As someone who has experienced so many different sides of this, you have zero clue the degree to which your appetite and ability to suppress it is hormonal until you get hormonally compromised (and then fix it, in my case, happily)

Blaming individuals for a public health crisis affecting 40% of the population is absolutely silly. There are a lot of individuals like me, who overeat behaviorally, but that doesn't explain the scale of the issue. maybe 8-10% of the population has some sort of eating disorder, the other 30% are just regular people eating an american diet.

NorthSouthNorthyesterday at 8:59 PM

I think this is easy to say as a healthy eater (I am one too, always have been). However, unlearning a lifetime of bad habits is hard. But yeah, it's costing nations billions that could be better spent.

agosyesterday at 11:04 PM

If it’s not too hard why are people not doing it?

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ThrowawayTestryesterday at 8:52 PM

It's really not hard to not drink. It's really not hard to not do heroin. It's really not hard to...

honkycattoday at 1:47 AM

i feel like close to half the adult population having an eating disorder has to be chocked up to a bug in the human brain at some point.

we evolved to eat caloric foods, in case of a famine that will never happen in the modern world.

I think we are too soft on people and we let dirtbags get away with way too much in the US but saying "its not that hard" is a cop out.

we get it you're a macho conservative. nobody cares.