Reframing Obesity
ON why shaming and blaming and a focus only on “personal responsibility” is not the right framework for addressing obesity.
“People are simply told to eat more vegetables and exercise — the equivalent of tackling global warming by asking the public only to fly less or recycle. Diet gurus and companies mint billions off food and exercise fads that will ultimately fail.”
We need to think more about systems and environments than individuals. “…more commonly, obesity is believed to arise because of still murky gene-environment interactions.”