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Obesity is not due to an eating disorder, it's due to sedentary lifestyles, pedestrian hostile neighborhoods, and market forces in the food industry.


> Obesity is not due to an eating disorder

Wrong. Not in most cases, but binge eating disorder is a thing.


Obesity can take the form of an eating disorder, but I can tell you that teenage girls aren't "pinning" photos of morbidly obese people and ending up in a spiral that lands them in hospital.

But I hope parent commenter never has to live personally through finding out just how life destroying the predominant cultural attitudes around body form & food around us are. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Obesity is by far the least of concerns.


IME it is usually mental health related.


Honestly, most of the people I know who have serious problems with obesity have some kind of metabolic disorder. Diabetic or pre-diabetic.

And I think this has become far more common than people will admit. We're burning out our pancreases through processed & high sugar, low-GI foods because the industrial food supply is poorly managed and under-regulated.

That plus cars.




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