RE: My new avatar explained
July 14, 2020 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2020 at 8:00 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(July 14, 2020 at 3:42 pm)Lawz Wrote: There's this thing called "changing one's mind about how one behaves" through nothing more than information/education/therapy - you might have heard of it? No need to change the "environment" per se...or perhaps you think we are immutable creations of God who are incapable of changing in any way?
Force the corner shop to close...and the one just round the corner...and the 24 hour off licence...and the local yardy crack dealer etc ad absurdum?
My Bold - if it were really that easy do you not think such a practice would be in operation? Me, I can munch through 6 25g bags of crisps (chips) in an evening no probs so....colour me skeptical.
In theory, all behaviors are possible to change depending on how extreme you're willing to go (since drugs and lobotomies are always an option).
The best way to find a solution, however, is to understand what is driving the problem. In a Pew Poll (2006, p. 3) 73% of people answered that convenience was the main reason why people in the U.S. eat junk food whereas not knowing which foods are healthy received only 14% of votes. From this data (and ignoring what we know about behavior) we can see that education would not be a very effective solution. Most people already know eating burgers and French fries is not very good. In contrast, changing the environment and the convenience of fast food would target the problem more accurately.
