• Realitätsverlust@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    which points squarely at an environmental cause

    No, it points to people eating processed food and other shit. Guess what, you can still be healthy if you eat healthy.

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          2 months ago

          For the moment, anyway, it’s possible to eat good-ish if you educate yourself andfamiliarize yourself with your local area’s businesses.

          Of course it’s “possible;” anything is “possible.” What matters is, why is it apparently harder to do in the US than in other places?

          Something is different on the societal level that changes the average outcomes. Disregarding that because you’re bent on blaming individuals for perceived moral failings is missing the point.

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      2 months ago

      So then the question becomes, why is processed food and other shit so pervasive in the average American diet? That’s what an environmental factor is.

      Refusing to think about the problem in terms of systems because you’ve got a hard-on for blaming individuals is absolutely missing the point.

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        2 months ago

        You are 100% correct that we as a society have a problem with this

        That’s why the individual has to take extra care to eat right and excersise. Their doctor needs to emphasize this as much as possible.

        VCan we fix out society? I don’t know, I sure hope so. But in the meantime people are responsible for their own health.