Actually, to be more-specific, we're eating foods engineered to damage the leptin-signaling mechanism which are designed that way for the specific purpose of selling more of said foods.......
The primary mediator of satiety when it comes to hunger is known as the leptin signaling mechanism. This is a somewhat-complex hormonal path that leads you to be hungry. If you are not hungry, of course, you are unlikely to eat.
Other experts agree. “It’s clear from this important new research and other studies that changes to our food, not our activity, are the dominant drivers of obesity,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University in Boston.
Those changes were intentionally made.
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....Can I identify the exact formulations that lead to this disruption? No, but this much I can tell you for certain: Removing all the potential causative foods resulted in reasonable-rate weight loss in my person which persisted until I reached a normal body mass at which time it stopped on its own even though what I ate continued to be the same. Further, whether I am engaged in relatively high intensity and sustained exercise (e.g. backpacking, training for a half-marathon, etc.), ordinary levels of exercise I enjoy today (e.g. ~3x running a week, etc.) or almost none at times (e.g. if on vacation and its inconvenient, if the weather is ridiculously unfavorable, etc.) my body mass doesn't change much at all which is a very strong implication that your body is entirely capable of, and does, modulate food intake appropriate to expenditure on an automatic and unconscious basis if you do not poison the mechanism that does so.
As I've pointed out many times before to do this very same thing consciously you'd have to regulate your food input to within a tolerance of one potato chip or bite of steak. That's impossible and therefore said regulation has to be autonomous.
If you're a food producing company one of your primary goals is, of course, to increase sales.
If you can poison that mechanism so it never shuts off that would be very profitable, would it not?
What's the check and balance on this?
Jail the executives of the firms that have done so or force them to disgorge the funds expended by all the obese people on health care related to said obesity which they have deliberately caused.
Well FDA?
