The Obesogenic Environment

The real reason we gain weight

What do you want to be when you grow up? As a child, I dreaded this inane question that always seemed to be the first thing an adult wanted to know from a 6-year-old. Back in the day, the standard answers included doctor, police, fire fighter, nurse. In 2022, But a survey in 2022 found that a staggering 57% of young people (Generation Z) want to grow up to be … a social media influencer. This illustrates the massive importance of social influence and social modelling on our everyday lives, and this applies to eating behavior, too.

How to Manage Emotional Eating 2/2

The oldest debate in science is Nature versus Nurture. How much a problem, such as obesity, reflects the role of the individual versus that of their environment, which includes societal norms. If obesity is predominantly a social and environmental problem, then fixating on an individual solution, like willpower or exercise is not useful, and vice versa. If you focus on the wrong problem, you will never solve it. If you run in the wrong direction, it doesn’t matter how fast you go. The obesity epidemic, started in the late 1970s, is…