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I would like to pitch the idea that the obesity epidemic is a symptom of failed city infrastructure. Imagine if riding a bike was a no-friction activity; you walk out your door, you have a bike there and the bike lanes are treated as first-class infra instead of cars. Imagine how much more you would bike in this situation, and how much healthier you and everyone around you would be
Youβre trying to find a problem for your solution.
The obesity epidemic actually due to the increased availability of ultra processed foods.
Is it? There's primitive cultures that eat every kind of weird diet you can imagine, and they're all thin and fit. It's still kind of a mystery why exactly we can't handle eating even a fraction like the historical Inuit, and just the processing itself shouldn't change much.
Because ultra processed foods don't fill us up but taste incredibly good. Technically the problem is overeating, but it's a lot easier to overeat ultra processed foods.
I mean, which foods even count as ultraprocessed isn't well defined. It's not an ingredient, it's not a technique. OP was trying to find a problem for their solution, you're right, but lack of exercise is just as big of a suspect if not bigger.
They're engineered to be very appealing for sure, but do you have a link for the not filling us up bit? That one's new to me.