Morgain
Well-known member
Slavik in principle I agree. If other factors were better managed.
I am obese due to illness. I have been fighting it for a long time. But I get rid of it, get sick again and have to do it all again.
As a result I know far more than I want to about the obesity struggle.
One major issue is about 80% of the food sold in shops is bad for us. It used to be more like 30% was sugared, or crisps, or high fat. Now we have to exercise high level willpower when shopping all the time. Why should my shopping be such an ordeal?
Manufacturers use highly paid professionals working full time in big teams to use a mass of psychological and physical research - all to break past my individual willpower. Advertising actually works so it kills people via this crusing of willpower! Then there's placement on shelves. Then there's outright lies - most "health food" is not healthy at all - and diet food is junk too. Most people dont know that. Then there's the growth os the pressure when I buy petrol or go in almost any building that sells other things - cinemas for example.
In poorer areas shops stock very little fresh food.Even when you can buy it the actual nutrition value of fresh food has gone down by around 60% because the soil is so exhausted by pesticides and artificial fertilisers. The body demands more because it knows its being cheated. So we eat more. Not everyone can afford organic stuff and even that is not as good as years ago.
Add to all this that exercise options are difficult - sports grounds being sold off to developers to build offices. Walking the street is not safe in many areas and sports facilities are expensive. Try juggling a family with children, and a business to run around council crazy opening hours for the pool. We spent years organising the entire family week around the few hours available for me to swim. I gave up on that and now pay for a private club. Not everyone can afford that.
To diet effectively I just dont go out for months. Except to the club to swim. so I live this horrible isolated life because our government wont legally control the lying cheating food industry. The campaign to get clear "traffic light labels" on foods to show sugar, salt and fat content was thrown out - by the food industry. Which funds both the big political parties so government is passive.
It just isnt so simple as willpower and laziness. Years ago I could go shopping and get good food anywhere - which really was good food. I could walk the streets and go swimming any evening after work..
I am obese due to illness. I have been fighting it for a long time. But I get rid of it, get sick again and have to do it all again.
As a result I know far more than I want to about the obesity struggle.
One major issue is about 80% of the food sold in shops is bad for us. It used to be more like 30% was sugared, or crisps, or high fat. Now we have to exercise high level willpower when shopping all the time. Why should my shopping be such an ordeal?
Manufacturers use highly paid professionals working full time in big teams to use a mass of psychological and physical research - all to break past my individual willpower. Advertising actually works so it kills people via this crusing of willpower! Then there's placement on shelves. Then there's outright lies - most "health food" is not healthy at all - and diet food is junk too. Most people dont know that. Then there's the growth os the pressure when I buy petrol or go in almost any building that sells other things - cinemas for example.
In poorer areas shops stock very little fresh food.Even when you can buy it the actual nutrition value of fresh food has gone down by around 60% because the soil is so exhausted by pesticides and artificial fertilisers. The body demands more because it knows its being cheated. So we eat more. Not everyone can afford organic stuff and even that is not as good as years ago.
Add to all this that exercise options are difficult - sports grounds being sold off to developers to build offices. Walking the street is not safe in many areas and sports facilities are expensive. Try juggling a family with children, and a business to run around council crazy opening hours for the pool. We spent years organising the entire family week around the few hours available for me to swim. I gave up on that and now pay for a private club. Not everyone can afford that.
To diet effectively I just dont go out for months. Except to the club to swim. so I live this horrible isolated life because our government wont legally control the lying cheating food industry. The campaign to get clear "traffic light labels" on foods to show sugar, salt and fat content was thrown out - by the food industry. Which funds both the big political parties so government is passive.
It just isnt so simple as willpower and laziness. Years ago I could go shopping and get good food anywhere - which really was good food. I could walk the streets and go swimming any evening after work..
