How to Eat as Much as You Want and Never Get Fat
Feast on the right foods and your body will know when to stop.
Let’s start with an unusual statement: Western culture has weaponized food for psychological torture.
This is no hyperbole. On the one hand, our culture idealizes overly thin bodies and, on the other, it surrounds us with foods purpose-built to make us overeat — the perfect recipe for food-induced misery.
Now, don’t get me wrong; we should certainly keep each other accountable to avoid obesity (which costs society a mind-boggling $2 trillion every year), but social pressures to be excessively thin have long been out of hand. Ironically, these pressures only make us gain more weight.
It’s high time we straighten out this twisted system. First, let’s ignore social conventions and define “fat” as the point where health risks become serious. That would be the “high” or “very high” risk bands in this calculator (orange and red areas in the figure below).
Second, let’s replace all those sugary, fatty, and salty addictions with a healthy and varied whole-food diet. I’m confident that getting “fat”…
