umphreak
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Body weight is definitely highly controlled. The body has a "setpoint" that is defended at all costs. If you go below the setpoint, whether through diet or exercise, your body actually increases hunger in order to defend its "preferred" body weight, which is why it's so hard to lose weight! The setpoint can change, and that's basically the problem. Eating highly palatable foods (which most processed foods are designed to be) all the time raises the setpoint. And it's much easier to raise it than it is to bring it back down!Body weight is the most controlled system in the human body. That's why diet programs don't really work. And BTW I blame all of these problems on corporate america. It's all about those profit margins, and nothing else. If we get sick off their food, it's our fault. If you hurt yourself inside of any American corporation, it's your fault.
I'm tired of it all too. Corporations want all of the rewards for their existence, but none of the responsibility. And for some odd reason we keep letting them do it. I hear the excuses, and victim blaming all of the time. It's like we decided to play opposites day, and never stopped. The corporations should care more about the customers. Not customers caring more about some fake ass brand.
It doesn't make sense. Corporations don't make money without customers. But people can buy products without corporations. We can buy cheap products too. We literally don't need them, they need us! So what the hell are we really doing out there?
Food corporations make food the way they do because there is a huge demand for it! People want cheap*, quick, ultra-palatable food. Nobody is forcing anybody to buy anything. People have choice and therefore are NOT victims, in my opinion. This is the crux of the problem: people have a victim mentality. It's always "oh, the evil corporations are poisoning us, we're victims!" If people voted with their dollars and made the CHOICE to spend their money on fresh, minimally-processed foods and prepare them themselves at home, I guarantee that that's what the corporate interests would produce more of. If people made the CHOICE to actually educate themselves about what it really means to eat healthy (instead of just taking the government's word for it), they would reap the benefits. When demand increases, so does supply. This is a basic law of economics. So until people decide to stop being victims and take personal responsibility for their own health, nothing will change. That's not victim-blaming to say that.
*Of course, processed foods only appear cheap in the US because they are subsidized by our tax dollars, so we pay for them at tax time and then again at the grocery store*