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Unless there's an easy solution most of us are just going to die from this. I can't battle the market that wants to feed me supersized everything because that's where they can hide the cost of wages and offer an illusion of value.

It needs to be tasty (enough), it needs to be cheap (at least enough to compete with the crap food that's already an option), and it needs to be an option everywhere.

Clearly, regulation is required to force the market to offer healthy options for consumers.

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It’s pretty easy to stop eating processed crap. Heck, it’s easy to stop eating entirely for most of the day.

Skip breakfast and lunch. Have a single meal a day and use the time you saved from skipping the other meals to prepare something nutritious and delicious.

It’s so easy that people have been doing it for thousands of years. Except now it’s even easier because you don’t have to stalk a gazelle or wake up at dawn to weed a garden.

The skip is key in my experience - if you try to “eat something small” your body goes into “devour the entire McDonald’s” mode and it takes much more willpower.

Don't skip. Eat at least 3 meals a day with a good balance of Carbs, Protein and Fat.

For a snack, have some whey protein.

Then you will have the energy to lift weights 3 times a week, and do cardio (or just long walks) days inbetween.

Yes you can - stick to whole foods and cook reasonable portions. Mediterranean dishes are easy and healthy to cook. The rest of the world can do it, so can America!

The rest of the world isn’t doing it according to the study

Aye, it's killing them too -- Americans were just start of the trend.

People are jumping on you, but you’re right. As long as billions of dollars are being pumped into selling people bad food this isn’t going to get better.

Listen to you two fatalists. I suggest you find the closest ocean and return to the earth now if we are so doomed.

I’m not saying individuals can’t make changes. I have. But it’s struggling against the current. How about we remove the struggle.

You can do okay with healthier convenience food, and/or quick to cook healthy foods.

And carry a bottle of mouthwash; if you take a small snack immediately wash your mouth out afterwards; it greatly decreases the desire to snack some more.

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