Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short...
by Fricken on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:56AM
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Obesity rates in both France and the US are rising at similar, alarming rates. In the mid-90s the US surpassed 24% obesity rates, and at that time France was at less than 10%.
This is crazy. What are we doing? Nobody chooses to be fat, except maybe sumo wrestlers and a few other strange outliers.
Re:Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a short...
by bildung on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:32AM
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One successful approach seems seems to be education at schools and banning junk food there: "From 2012 to 2015, the number of overweight and obese children has dropped by 12%." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/14/amsterdam-so...
The overall rank of all countries by body mass index places the US at #9 and France at #43. [2]
Evolutionary psychology is fine for producing plausible-sounding explanations, but I have not yet heard a single case where it actually produced something of scientific value.
Sure, aeons of scarcity obviously made us like food. But as can be seen with this example, culture often plays a much bigger role.
[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/29-most-obese-countries-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...