tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post5526070229505312016..comments2023-06-05T11:51:38.383-04:00Comments on Evolutionary Psychiatry: Cravings and Processed Food Woo WooAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-22859227590461093702010-06-22T20:37:19.932-04:002010-06-22T20:37:19.932-04:00I think there are plenty of gluttonous sloths... b...I think there are plenty of gluttonous sloths... but the question has to be asked, were that always that way? Or has something in their environment-genetic interface turned them that way.<br /><br />It's a chicken and egg argument. Do you eat rubbish foods & not exercise because you are a gluttonous sloth, or do the readily accessible foods that we are often encouraged to eat turn the susceptible into gluttonous sloths and feed off the perpetual cycle from there?<br /><br />There is sufficent work being done now to suggest that this 'state' might be embedded in the hard wiring of people pre-conception (see work done by Peter Gluckman - 'Mismatch'). If this is the case, we aint seen nothing yet!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-52547788387598785792010-06-22T11:13:41.998-04:002010-06-22T11:13:41.998-04:00Thanks for the link! Many of my patients have bee...Thanks for the link! Many of my patients have been told that they would be fine if they just tried harder, or weren't so lazy, or whatever it is. I firmly believe in personal responsibility and hard work, but at the same time, at a societal level, we have to set up incentives and stack the deck so that personal responsibility and hard work have a better chance of being successful. And we have to be honest about the consequences of brain dysfunction and addiction, and from a public health level promote treatment strategies that will stand a chance at success before we give up and say that people have put on weight because they are gluttonous sloths and make such baseless, unhelpful moral judgments. Some people are lazy. I meet very few of them, myself. It's certainly not 60% of the adult population and 30% of the kids in the USA.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-74669831970730924452010-06-21T19:58:53.109-04:002010-06-21T19:58:53.109-04:00Emily,
The blaming of individuals for their lack ...Emily,<br /><br />The blaming of individuals for their lack of self control is very much the same approach as used by Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol. If only people would show more restraint & moderation, then there wouldn't be the problems that there are with these drugs (ignoring the addictive nature of nicotine and the fact that alcohol knocks out your judgement areas in your brain first).<br /><br />This is a great read if you are interested:<br /><br />The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco<br />Played Dirty and Millions Died. How<br />Similar Is Big Food?<br /><br />http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/what/industry/FoodTobacco.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com