This is for all the people who thought being overweight was their fault. And for you parents: Your kids likely have the same problem you do, and it's not your fault. Unfortunately, until the food industry takes out harmful chemicals from the food supply and stops making slider foods, and the healthcare industry starts focusing on the PHYSIOLOGICAL causes of obesity rather than diet & exercise, people will be big and our children will be big and likely have to go through VSG like we did. There's no shame in it. Unfortunately our world today is not a healthy one.

I actually had a food science professor tell our class that the food industry came out with HFCS, artificial sweeteners and slider foods because they wanted to make people have a larger capacity for food. Why? The food companies grew in line with population growth which isn't the financial goal for companies on the stock market and certainly not a way to be successful, so they had to figure out ways to increase consumption so that profits could align with other public companies. Really sad.

Anyways, with no further adieu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/opinion/sunday/kristof-warnings-from-a-flabby-mouse.html?ref=opinion&_r=3&

This is for all the people who thought being overweight was their fault. And for you parents: Your kids likely have the same problem you do' date=' and it's not your fault. Unfortunately, until the food industry takes out harmful chemicals from the food supply and stops making slider foods, and the healthcare industry starts focusing on the PHYSIOLOGICAL causes of obesity rather than diet & exercise, people will be big and our children will be big and likely have to go through VSG like we did. There's no shame in it. Unfortunately our world today is not a healthy one.

I actually had a food science professor tell our class that the food industry came out with HFCS, artificial sweeteners and slider foods because they wanted to make people have a larger capacity for food. Why? The food companies grew in line with population growth which isn't the financial goal for companies on the stock market and certainly not a way to be successful, so they had to figure out ways to increase consumption so that profits could align with other public companies. Really sad.

Anyways, with no further adieu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/opinion/sunday/kristof-warnings-from-a-flabby-mouse.html?ref=opinion&_r=3&[/quote']

Its sad the amount of fat shaming and blame I've seen on here...when there clearly are many environmental factors to our obesity epidemic. This has been going on for decades and is finally coming to a head. These chemicals are also to blame for increases in infertility, depression/anxiety, cancers and potentially autism. This was important to share. Hopefully posters here will take heed as well and stop blaming 100% of their (or someone else's) fat issues on the ability to eat less and move more, when there is clearly more to it.

This is for all the people who thought being overweight was their fault. And for you parents: Your kids likely have the same problem you do' date=' and it's not your fault. Unfortunately, until the food industry takes out harmful chemicals from the food supply and stops making slider foods, and the healthcare industry starts focusing on the PHYSIOLOGICAL causes of obesity rather than diet & exercise, people will be big and our children will be big and likely have to go through VSG like we did. There's no shame in it. Unfortunately our world today is not a healthy one.

I actually had a food science professor tell our class that the food industry came out with HFCS, artificial sweeteners and slider foods because they wanted to make people have a larger capacity for food. Why? The food companies grew in line with population growth which isn't the financial goal for companies on the stock market and certainly not a way to be successful, so they had to figure out ways to increase consumption so that profits could align with other public companies. Really sad.

Anyways, with no further adieu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/opinion/sunday/kristof-warnings-from-a-flabby-mouse.html?ref=opinion&_r=3&[/quote']

Thankyou for sharing this wonderful article

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