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To solve the Obesity Epidemic: Tax Couch Potatoes’ Remotes
4 min readDec 2, 2020
The man in the image is a ubiquitous Anglo-American, Aussie, Kiwi, German, Russian, and with wine, Spanish, French, Italian, Argentine and ______ classic, fighting a losing battle against his own inertia and gravity. Combining TV remotes with a toxic industrial food system makes an obesity epidemic inevitable. Add the collateral damage of healthcare costs the rest of us pay for through taxes and higher health insurance premiums.
Our remote-wielding beer chugger exemplifies the latest in human evolution:
He’s certainly not going back to a pre-Neolithic paleolithic diet, no matter how many celebrities tell him it’s a great idea and however it might improve his health. 250000 years of human evolution, 97% of which happened before agriculture, designed us for scarcity, not abundance, impulse and appetite control, whatever the…