The central message of the Foresight report, put together by a team headed by Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser, was that there was no simple answer to the problem. The nation had "sleepwalked" into it because our hunter-gatherer biology was out of step with the technological convenience age; we were programmed to eat as if we did not know where the next meal was coming from. "If we just behave normally we will become obese," Sir David said.
It is neither entirely the fault of the individual nor of society, Foresight says. There is no magic bullet solution, and no wonder diet drug will do the trick.
Not sure that I understand. Perhaps if we ate less and exercised more? A bit less understanding and a bit more blame? It seemed to work for cigarettes ...
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"Not sure that I understand. Perhaps if we ate less and exercised more?"
By Jove, it's a veritable breakthrough in our understanding of the human condition. And if teenagers abstained totally from sexual intercourse there'd be no teenage pregnancies or STIs. The solutions are so simple, when you just think logically.
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