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I think it's not at all surprising that a country with a culture and values like America's -- bigger, better, faster, easier, more -- would end up with a weight problem. At the same time, it's not surprising that such a culture would end up worshipping thinness. After all, people who point out that centuries ago, the Rubenesque body was praised -- that was back when the average person had to work to get enough to eat, and it was fairly difficult to be fat. These days it's the opposite.
Ditto the fact that people are lazy -- they don't WANT to exercise because it takes too much effort. They don't want to go to the effort to find out how to lose weight and keep it off. They want to keep eating how they want to eat, exercising how they want to exercise (i.e., not at all), and find some magic pill that will effortlessly make them lose weight. And since that magic pill has yet to be found, there are a lot of people out there who complain that they're not able to lose weight. The fact is that 90 percent of them just aren't making the effort either to do the work or to understand what they need to do to effectively lose weight.
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