re: It's not their fault they're fat! NPR edition

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Even a poster above me brags about his willpower yet is only able to lose weight and not keep it off.

The only difference between people today and people 50 years ago, a thinner generation, are external influences. The problem is multifactorial. If you take your normalization glasses off and zoom out, you can see the parabolic deviation from the ways we have lived for hundreds of thousands of years. We traded interdependence and purpose for consumerism and radical individualism. This is western modernity.

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It's hard to keep it off because it's much easier when you're busy with kids to just grab fast food or pizza. Nothing like getting home at 6 only to realize you forgot to take the ground beef out of the freezer. The difference is we now have a sugar diet. Everything has a sugar in it. Once you start watching what you eat, you realize you're in for basically cooking your own food for as long as you can keep it up. Discipline is hard and you're right... we're conditioned at every turn to take the easy way out.