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Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? by unfocussed_mike on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:23AM (#30627192)
As an addendum to what I wrote, I think a lot of societies (especially the few healthier western countries) who count themselves lucky to have avoided the cultural underpinnings that led to American-style obesity have not yet begun to comprehend what widespread on-demand food delivery will do to their national health.
Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? by boringg on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:37AM (#30627373)
Maybe but I will counter with the cost of on-demand food is not as financially accessible as you would think. As one data point our family has pretty much stopped using the services because of how much of a mark-up you pay.
Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? by the-dude on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:55AM (#30628313)
As a Western European who has lived in the US for a short while around 2000, I feel the battle is already lost.

Rising obesity in kids is observed but no link is made.

All the while I have seen my country 'Americanizing' in the last 20 years : more McDs etc, now the food delivery guys and McDs now delivers to your home too ( unfanthomable! )

It is not the US style what sells it : it is convenience. Convenience sells.

Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? by brimble on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:09AM (#30628494)
On-demand food delivery is for people with lots of disposable income. It's really expensive. You get pick-up otherwise.

At least in the US. Maybe it's different in Europe.

$4+ per diner delivery markup (increased base food price, delivery fee, tip) will keep it from being a widespread problem. This is like worrying that meal ingredient delivery services will make lots of people more sedentary because they won't walk to the grocery store—no, it won't, because not many people can afford those services.

Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? by long_time_gone on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:40AM (#30627412)
Might those same cultural underpinnings impact their adoption and usage of on-demand delivery?
Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? by unfocussed_mike on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:57AM (#30627601)
I don't know; I wonder if anyone knows.

After all, the USA was once a country of broad, healthy outdoorsy types, and that health pattern carried on well into metropolitan living, well into the late seventies.

And then the "TV dinner" approach was all dinners, and along came higher and higher calorie snacks. Americans became substantially less healthy in less than two decades. Through convenience shopping.

The same thing happened to the British at only a slightly smaller scale, and slightly later.