Not simple: The role of personal responsibility in health care reform

Is there any thinking person who doesn’t acknowledge the role of personal responsibility in staying healthy? I don’t think so, but listening to a lot of the those who’d rather not spend a nickle toward reforming a badly broken system, would have you believe that blaming the victim is just the answer.

This leaves out some important facts, like that your food is layered with all the elements to make it ‘hyperpalatable’, override thousands of years of evolution, and set up Americans for a case of chronic ‘conditioned overeating’ as described by Dr. David Kessler in his ground breaking book: “The End of Overeating.

Sure, we could all put the donut down. But when you look at the billions that are spent annually on diets, diet pills, diet drinks, diet plans, diet books then maybe it’s just not that simple.

What if you learned that the food you buy and feed to your family had been specifically’engineered’ in food science laboratories to ensure that you’d come back for more? A lot more?

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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

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From Publishers Weekly
Conditioned hypereating is a biological challenge, not a character flaw, says Kessler, former FDA commissioner under presidents Bush and Clinton). Here Kessler (A Question of Intent) describes how, since the 1980s, the food industry, in collusion with the advertising industry, and lifestyle changes have short-circuited the body’s self-regulating mechanisms, leaving many at the mercy of reward-driven eating.

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