According to the studies cited, in some cases people bought less calories and in some cases people bought more calories and in a lot of cases calorie buying behavior did not change, just because people were informed. This is not surprising to me. When did the fast food chains start posting calorie counts? Recently, that’s when.
Here is the comment that especially disappointed me “We’re not as plump as we are because we’ve never had our eyes opened to the wages of a Whopper. We’re this way because it’s all too easy, in a pang of hunger and collapse of resolve, to turn a blind eye to the toll.”
To be in the overweight and obese situation that we are in is not a matter of an event. Just like being an addict, you must re-choose your addiction over and over again, every single day. You cannot be obese because on one day, in a pang of hunger you collapsed your resolve. Every single day for months and months and then years and years, you must ignore calories and refuse exercise over and over again. You cannot become obese without having a bit of resolve. You must have resolved to ignore calories and you must insist on NOT exercising to excess. You must have a commitment to ongoing over-eating. This is not easy, your body will reject this; you will have to buy Alka Seltzer and Pepto Bismol and Tums. You will have to ignore what your body is telling you about your stomach. So please, do not suggest that a single event happened and we are now overweight. It is an ongoing string of events.
