Comment by inglor_cz
19 hours ago
"I don't think the human brain/body evolved much since then so surely there is another problem."
What really changed is the foodscape. And quite thoroughly so. Even basic agricultural products like wheat, corn or fruit are different from the variants 50+ years ago, there was a concerted effort to make them bigger, pesticide-resistant, more sweet, more energy-dense...
I remember the apples of the 1980s. Nowhere near as sweet as today, some were thoroughly sour. And these are considered the healthy choice now.
"The only solution is behavioural, everything else is cope."
This is like, your opinion, man. An opinion that can make you feel smug, but that is no victory. In practice, GLP-1s are doing what a generation of preachers like you could not - making people more thin and healthier.
In a sense, it is you who is coping hard and defending a "solution" which provably never worked on a population scale.
> In practice, GLP-1s are doing what a generation of preachers like you could not - making people more thin and healthier.
Alright, then let's continue making food worse and worse over the years, let's keep building a system that is less and less viable for humans. When we'll all be on GLP-1, + depression + ADHD drugs to just cope with days to day life maybe we'll finally wake up and ask ourselves how we ended in such a shit show.
Making food healthier is something categorically different (and better) than shaming people about their behavior. It is also much harder, because it can't be simply done over a keyboard.
If you really did something material to improve our food choice and food quality, I salute you. But this is rare enough for me to doubt it. Most people are content with wagging their fingers on strangers.