The link between eating and obesity is one of the most direct there is, and yet there are still millions of people in the U.S. who are obese. Often even those who talk about "personal responsibility" and who claim that poverty is a choice, that faith is a choice, etc... tend to be obese or overweight and are ironically incapable of "choosing" to lose weight in order to improve their health. Why is this the case?
Are these people simply being irresponsible and making the wrong choices, or is the biological drive to consume, coupled with an environment that encourages gluttony, too strong to overcome? And if we have that little control in a situation with such an obvious correlation between action and result, how much control do we have when it comes to rising above poverty, for example?
How much control do people really have over the choices they make? What percentage of choice is genetically or environmentally influenced, and what percentage can truly be attributed to free will?
2006-06-30
12:44:19
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