[–] code_guerilla 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
I love these kinds of articles. Their focus is on externalizing the problem, making it so that being fat is not the fatties fault, but some mysterious outside force.
Now in all fairness food companies do pull some shenanigans with their products. They are engineered to taste better, make you feel less full, and train your brain to crave them.
This is not an excuse to be fat however. The simple fact remains that you must exert some self control in order to lose weight. You must decide that these processed, over engineered foods, are an occasional treat. Of course the makers of oreos design them to sell as many as possible. That doesn't mean you need to sit down and eat a whole fucking package.
No ones forces someone to eat to much food. The only thing you have to do is literally stop putting shit in your mouth. Why is that so hard to understand.
[–] lefthandpath 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
All food companies put calorie content on their products. There is no excuse. There is never any excuse. Fat is fat.
[–] Gimme_Shelter 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
It's just one person's opinion hiding behind one quotation which also happens to be an opinion. Thermodynamics does not lie.
[–] 1986013? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
So far as I can tell he's skipping the usual fatlogic and just directly claiming that people don't have personal responsibility for their eating. He seems to be linking it to a claim that people don't have personal responsibility for their spending in the hope that fat people will buy a bullshit get-rich-quick book he's peddling.
[–] DropBearBait 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
"Nawt muh fault!"
That's basically the whole argument...