New explanation for middle-age weight gain

Re:New explanation for middle-age weight gain by tsunamifury on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:06PM (#14301172)

Environment. Its easy to overcome the psychological issues of eating when you are happy and relatively healthy already and in a safe environment. Put yourself in a hyper-competitive environment with high risk and low reward ratios and you can watch everyone start having food issues. That seem initially seemed to be just tech, but no increasingly is America at large.

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Re:New explanation for middle-age weight gain by wutbrodo on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:21PM (#14301306)

> That seem initially seemed to be just tech, but no increasingly is America at large.

That doesn't seem to be the case at all, in my experience. In fact, out of all the white collar industries my friends and I are involved in, tech makes a healthy lifestyle the easiest by a loooongshot. This is part of a cultural feedback loop that also involves people's habits: probably 95% of the tech workers I know regularly exercise and are opinionated about their diet.

This may be a regional thing though; I live in the second fittest city in the country.

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Re:New explanation for middle-age weight gain by bitexploder on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:09AM (#14314967)

I wouldn't call it easy, but at least possible :)

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