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In reply to the discussion: Aspirational eating: or why people are micro-obsessing over food [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)29. but the main reason consumption is high while exercise is low is that the
environment is 'designed' that way: living patterns, commuting patterns, shopping patterns, working patterns, etc.
no single person laid the design, but it works out so that the average person eats more and expends less energy than his peer 50 years ago.
thus exhorting people as individuals to consume less and work out more is unlikely to yield any statistical change; the environment works against that: in its totality it's like trying to fight gravity, as it were.
rather, change the environment. but that of course takes a collective will, which is no stronger than anyone's individual will.
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In that 'pork rinds' are a signal to the bloc of voters he's trying to appeal to,
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#6
The writer breaks the 'food revolution' down to 4 pillars. Weight-loss dieting
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#5
For me, weight loss dieting = "can't fit clothes" and "too cheap to buy a whole new wardrobe".
dkf
Nov 2012
#8
i read it. but i don't get the point. it's someone making fun of 'golden age'
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#11
I can only buy that to a certain extent. Some foods have been scientifically determined to healther
Zorra
Nov 2012
#23
if you read the diss, the 'food revolution' she's talking about actually has
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#34
the 'hippie' thing is included in the diss. it's interesting to hear about your
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#36
Yes, we are generally surveilled by others from infancy, and this surveillance regulates our
Zorra
Nov 2012
#37
It's not a conscious process, as I said before. We may be talking past each other.
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#44