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>>8757350
>It's generally the result of some sort of mental disturbance.
They have lower sensitivity to leptin, serotonin, and other brain chemicals located on the reward circuit and as part of appetite regulation.
The NIH gave a presentation on the latest research into obesity and brain changes a few months ago that's on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwAHIHVomo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3weIemIjWDs

It's also been proven that obese people have less taste receptors on their tongues so they have to physically ingest larger quantities of food to obtain the same amount of flavor as a normal person (this is only correlation so we can't say set which if being obese leads to taste decline or vice versa):
https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/obesity-could-it-be-taste-buds

If you are eating a diet high in fat/simple carbs that doesn't have significant amounts of fiber not only does that mean you won't stay satiated for very long with stabilized blood sugar, but a lack of soluable fiber will starve your gut biome which means a different set of fiber-poor microbiota get selected for that promote weight gain.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-help-make-us-fat-and-thin/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160827162200.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/gut-bacteria-plays-a-role-in-long-term-weight-gain-a7632031.html

Will power is a myth. It's a chemical and biological process, and foods are drugs.

>>8588275
>knowingly sell cancer
Them. See tobacco sales.

Most consumers are short-sighted goldfish, and like goldfish will eat themselves to death which ultimately is great for business when your industry is based on sales volume vs. quality. Humans are biologically manipulable, so companies have spend unreal sums of cash on R&D to screw around with flavorings and macro-ratios to abuse the psychological Bliss Point and hijack the brain's reward center to keep people coming back for more because these products are carefully engineered to never actually trigger satiety at their prescribed serving sizes.

If you have time, the National Institutes of Health gave a presentation on the latest research concerning foods, obesity, and addiction exactly 1 month ago to the day today that was uploaded on youtube. It's both fascinating and depressing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3weIemIjWDs

>>7490129
it's drugs to your body all the difference it makes