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I'd like to speak in specifics at this point.
Another reason why we're fat is because too many people only drink things like green tea only after it's been ruined by soft drink companies.
Another reason is because we no longer look at food and its preparation as a spiritual or pleasurable experience; we look at it as a chore, and so we look for convenience.
Another reason is because we don't understand cause and effect over a certain period of time. Immediate gratification is best understood, and as each second passes beyond that, it's as though the effect is shot into outer space.
Another reason is because we would rather pay for something rather than do it or make it ourselves.
Another reason is because we don't understand food. Adding fibre to a milkshake doesn't make it good for you.
Another reason is because we've adjusted our tastes to prefer what's bad for us, and we've pushed the good food out of our realm of what we find pleasurable. As an example, I used to put salt and fat on everything; now I prefer things such as vegetables with herbs, if not "au naturel."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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