Dr. Jason Fung

That obesity risk goes way up, right?

And there's lots of data on this, right?

you know, what other people around us do has a huge influence on what we do, right?

So if everybody around you is going for a hike all the time, you know, going to the beach all the time, hey, you're going to go to the beach because your friends are going to the beach or you're going to go for a hike in the mountains, right?

If you're just sitting around watching a game, having beer and French fries, right?

Guess what?

If your friends are doing that, you're probably going to do that too, right?

That's what being human is all about, right?

We're social creatures.

That's why social influence is such an important thing.

It basically tells you what the sort of limits of acceptable activity are.

And the problem is that if you go to places, you know, that have more defined food rules, if you will,

That sets the guardrails and therefore you're not getting all these conditioned hunger, right?

So you go to Japan and you can't eat walking around the street.

It's very much frowned upon, right?

You go to Italy and they're enjoying their food, right?

But you are expected to eat it with family at a table, right?

It's not like you should be eating it by yourself

in front of the computer, right?

Then you've got all these issues with mindless eating.