TITLE PAGE 3: Will Power
“Putting individual solutions and free will up against the increase in portion sizes, massive technological and societal changes, food-company taste-engineering , and the ubiquity of effective television advertisements is like asking Ecuador to conquer China. And yet, that is what public-health campaigns suggest we do.”
Marc Ambinder
Article: Fat Nation. It’s Worse than you Think how to beat obesity.
The Atlantic May 2010 pages 78-79.
Time has come to stop making moral judgements about fat people. However, there is a persisting belief that fat people only have themselves to blame for their weight and that finding a pill that will make them thin is somehow cheating.
Brian
“Putting individual solutions and free will up against the increase in portion sizes, massive technological and societal changes, food-company taste-engineering , and the ubiquity of effective television advertisements is like asking Ecuador to conquer China. And yet, that is what public-health campaigns suggest we do.”
Marc Ambinder
Article: Fat Nation. It’s Worse than you Think how to beat obesity.
The Atlantic May 2010 pages 78-79.
Time has come to stop making moral judgements about fat people. However, there is a persisting belief that fat people only have themselves to blame for their weight and that finding a pill that will make them thin is somehow cheating.
Brian
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