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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher is becoming an insufferable clown. [View all]meadowlander
(4,394 posts)Do you know what's the only diet that has ever worked for me? Moving away from America.
If you live in a work culture that forces you to exhaust yourself and a built environment that makes if hard to access healthy food and exercise and a health care system that doesn't want to spend a penny until you're already sick and then only on pharmaceuticals many of which make you gain weight or make it almost impossible to lose it then *surprise* you're going to get fat. 70% of the American population is fat. Every country in the world that has adopted an American lifestyle has become dramatically fatter.
But yes, let's pretend this is a problem that is strictly about individuals' willpower and character because that's so much more satisfying to people who are lucky enough not to have the same struggles that people battling obesity have.