Robert Lustig argues that overeating and inactivity aren't character flaws but biochemical responses to a toxic food environment. He dismisses the idea that obesity comes from eating too much and moving too little, calling these symptoms, not causes.
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What are the biochemical underpinnings of gluttony and sloth? That's what we want to know. Now, remember, Cashmore said that free will was about our DNA and our environment and our random stochastic processes. But DNA hasn't changed, and the random stochastic processes are random. The only thing that is actually manipulable is the environment. So what has happened to our food environment? Kelly Brownell, in this book, Food Fight, labeled this the toxic environment. And here are all the things that have happened to our food and our activity. And this is old news to all of you. And this is what you hear about all the time on TV from all the obesity pundits, you know, whether they're on the Today show or anywhere else. Garbage. Okay? These are all the results of the problem, not the causes of the problem.