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These people you describe are experiencing very real eating disorders. Even if they aren’t counting calories, they are keenly aware that they’re destroying their body. They aren’t silent, they’re addicted.

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BizarroLand 3 days ago | parent [-]

Socially acceptable eating disorders are the foundation of multiple hundred billion dollar companies.

Every junk and fast food company in America sells food that does not satisfy you, is unhealthy for you, has a "taste" that is not easy to replicate at home but that has been scientifically curated to prevent you from reaching the satiation point when you are eating them (like Pringles, "Bet you can't eat just one", but it's all of the foods all of the time), has less nutrition year over year despite artificial vitamin supplementation, and is just a hair less expensive than cooking it yourself with better ingredients.

It's not an eating disorder to eat junk food in America.

It's a symptom of a larger society wide dysfunction that any person who lived in a sane world and was suddenly subjected to would consider demonic/evil/abhorrent/terrifying.

Don't blame the victims. Recognize the blight for what it is.

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cush 3 days ago | parent [-]

It’s both. I do recognize, and agree with most of what you’re saying. The junk food industrial complex is real.

But people have autonomy and if you took their burgers away tomorrow they’d riot.

> It's not an eating disorder to eat junk food in America.

It absolutely is a disorder to eat to the level you described in your previous comment.

Just because millions of people take part in it, and it’s socially acceptable doesn’t make the way Americans eat not an eating disorder. They’re also aware, not silent, or ignorant. Everyone knows junk food and eating until you want to throw up is bad for you.

And yes I fully understand there are people out there inventing ways to make food even more addictive. Fuck those people. Those are the worst people.

	▲	BizarroLand 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So you're saying ordering any food from a fast food restaurant is an eating disorder? The average combo meal clocks in at nearly a thousand calories at a minimum at essentially every fast food restaurant in America even if you just drink water with it. I get where you're coming from, but it is entirely too easy to not see the bigger picture and to blame the victims of the system. The system is fucked, it is fucked on purpose because that is profitable, most people are too stupid too ignorant or at least two uninformed to know about it and even more so do anything about it. Blaming overweight Americans for their overweightness just lets you personally feel better about yourself while doing nothing to actually identify or solve the problem.