> Nutrition isn't exclusively (or even primarily) about weight loss.
Maintaining a healthy weight is the primary health problem for the vast majority of people concerned about their personal nutrition.
Maintaining a healthy weight is the primary health problem for the vast majority of people concerned about their personal nutrition.
> Because a lot of people are suffering and dying of poor nutrition
In the developed world, they're mostly suffering and dying because of overconsumption (or reasonable consumption of really high-calorie food).
I'm not trying to say that I think it's as simple as 'put down the fork fatty!' or 'put the twinkie down!'.
I'm saying that instead of focusing on 'oh don't eat too many carbs' or 'lower your salt intake' as a silver bullet to 'why is our nutrition shit?', we should maybe be asking those harder questions: why is it so hard to put down the fork? how can we make it easier to be conscious of our caloric consumption?
It absolutely is the primary problem for most people concerned with nutritional issues in developed nations. Obesity (which is quickly becoming the epidemic it's made out to be) carries all sorts of nasty side-effects that are well documented.