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Originally Posted by Petey
I can only respectfully disagree. Fast food is never the answer, regardless of how many hours one works. There is always a way to get real food, and this goes back to the idea that this isn't about "weight loss". It's about lifestyle...work included, mental health, including things like a sense of fulfillment. But the second anyone ever thinks they HAVE to eat fast food, they have abdicated their personal freedom. And once that happens, weight loss and even just health aren't even up for discussion.
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The issue is responsibility, but the locale of that responsibility is non-local because people are dependent on society at large. Where an individual is dependent, individual responsibility is dispersed into the milieu. This does not reduce an individual's responsibility because when an individual decides, their decisions effect everything around, while everything around affects the individual. Hence, any individual is able to make a new joblifestyle change, but that will effect everyone and everything in their life, which they, in turn, will be affected by.
This only means that the obesity equation is bigger than the individual it concerns, and the statistical trend toward bigger bodies is the outcome of living normally in our culture. Normalcy is dictated by the social narrative, which is an articulation of an ideology, which is an imagining of values and/or virtues. In a society where well-being is statistically declining in regards to physical weight and ability, and the majority of maladies are diet-related, and this is brought about by having a normal life... we have to change the social narrative which dictates what is normal.
If it were normal to consume whole, self-prepared food and ride a bike or walk around, then the way we build up the environment would reflect that norm, and individuals whole be affected by it, it would affect what sorts of decisions they make, and if nonsense food was talked about as strange, usual and abnormal... which it objectively is... the social trend would be to "be normal", and clearly, cultural norms should trend toward well-being.