Dr. Jason Fung

Like you have to get the cookie, go out and get the cookie as opposed to, oh, I'm going to exert willpower like for the whole two hours, I have to exert willpower to not eat that cookie.

So the difference in outcome is massive, but it's a simple fix.

You just say, okay, let's do this.

Let's get rid of the cookies.

But somebody has to acknowledge first that, hey, this is an important thing.

And that's why I wrote the book, because people always pin it down.

like weight loss, weight gain, to an individual problem.

But it's clearly not, right?

It's clearly a societal problem.

Because think about it.

If you have 70% of the American public as overweight or obese, well, how can it be an individual problem, right?

If you had 100 schoolchildren, one fails.

Well, maybe that's their problem.

But what if 70 fail?

Is it the kid's problem?

Or should you look at the teachers, the schools, the learning environment?

Obviously.

So why can't you extend the same logic to this, right?

It's clearly not an individual problem because people go back, like people go to other countries and then find out, oh,

Like people say this all the time.