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My wife and many of our friends have been in the wellness and human performance 'industry' for many years, and we've learned a few things. 

1) the medical profession is woefully unprepared and/or unwilling to tackle lifestyle issues head on.  Lets face it - its tough to be the bad guy when you've been trained to be the good guy.

2) we are never going to turn our lifestyle related health crisis around until we call it what it is a) addiction, and 2) get serious about the 'change model.' 

In most cases, the 'change model' requires either a personal crisis or a heavy social stigma to bring about a fundamental disruption to the reward system that reinforces so many of the addictions that plague this society.  Until we begin to stigmatize over-consuption with taxes and/or penalties (a surcharge on insurance for anyone with more than 25% body fat, for instance), we know that people, as a group, will NOT alter their habits and addictions.  Sad, but true...

posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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