Another good reason is that people who start working out and feel positive, lose their momentum in 2-3 weeks. They lack discipline. Discipline is very important in any field. Even if you eat shit on weekends at a family get together or a party, you should automatically try to compensate that in next few days by working out more or reducing diet.
Eating, sleeping, and pooping shouldn't be matters you need to punish yourself over.
The problem is the industry. Very few people are as nutty, paranoid, or masochistic enough as they have to be to actively avoid the garbage food people think is normal. Furthermore, they shouldn't have to have this enormous uphill battle. Why for heaven's sake can't the food just not be shit in the first place?
Is it any wonder why Japanese people are considerably thinner? It's not the genes. It's that, and this is a very real example, a prior student of mine when teaching in Japan, 14 year old girl, admitted to never having eaten a sandwich before.. Well as an American that was hard for me to believe.. but Japanese mother's prepare meals at home. Meat is expensive, so they eat a lot of vegetables, rice, and sea food. Japan is getting fatter.. But America introduced a lot of the corporate culture that comes with modern industry after dropping the bomb. But anyway, you've got the US, with their fast food, but at least Japan has convenince stores on every corner, selling bento meals that are just incredibly superior in terms of health and nutrition, and that, I believe, is where most salary men go for their convenient meal fix.
Like I said earlier, people think eating bad food is normal. They also have an impression that diet and 100 calorie versions of food are somehow healthy for them. They are clueless to the reality, because the reality to them is and has always been what's advertised, what's shown on television and in their face 24/7. There is this notion among the public that even though corporations make a lot of money, they wouldn't do things that are unsafe, cruel, despicable. You can't fault them for blindly giving their trust.. It's natural. I compliment all of you who are proud of losing weight or eating right or being healthier and avoiding the junk, but you shouldn't think less of others for not achieving that.. It's bizarre that you have to reject corporate and government endorsement.. basically assume that the powers that be are out to use you and will get away with everything they can. As a liberal oriented person, I can do that.. Not every one has the capacity for that. People are busy busy busy, and they shouldn't have to worry that their food providers don't give a shit about them. It's not fair to expect everyone to even face that challenge.
Instead, the industry needs to change. I can't believe they get away with this shit, but they do... and the government at best, doesn't really care, and at worst, is totally in bed with them and doesn't give a shit either, in the interest of money.
Oh, and I definitely need to add that a child will long be obese before he/she is ever capable of the awareness and discipline being paraded in this thread. I mean, I agree, you really do need that, I just think the laws should be there, invested in the interest of the health and well being of the people, and if they were, it wouldn't be normal to be obese at the age of 8.
.. and yes, that's totally child abuse, but the parent is only to blame if they really know better.. and can you say that they do if they are still buying the junk for themselves and their family?
I am glad to see a bunch of determined people in this thread though. It makes it feel like all hope is not lost.