I’m going to be honest. This says alot more about your business practices, empathetic abilities, and your leadership than obesity ever says about a persons character and discipline.
The good news is, with an attitude like this, you won’t have to worry about hiring anyone.
I’ve simply observed in life that people who are gluttonous have a lot of other issues. Even without exercise it’s simply calories in, calories out. Eating a reasonable amount is easier than eating a lot.
"Calories in, calories out" is basically a useless phrase, implying that the human response to food and exercise is as easily modelable as a physics problem on a test. Especially how you seem to connect it directly to "gluttony," as though that were the main predictor of a person's weight.
The human body responds in many complex ways to your diet, activity, food intake, etc. Different people absorb variable amounts of calories from the same food, depending on ethnicity, age, type of food, when it's consumed, their microbiome composition, whether they're dieting, the weather outside, etc, etc. And yet, the state of the art is still to "calculate" calories by just setting food on fire and measuring the heat released.
Like other prejudices, this can over/mistarget what you're aiming for. One of the most intelligent, driven, and charismatic people I've ever met was fat. Their discipline and character put everyone else's to shame, including mine. Whatever genetic/environmental quirk that made them succumb to eating more had ostensibly no connection to other aspects of their life.
Also,
> Eating a reasonable amount is easier than eating a lot.
isn't this disproved by the obesity epidemic? Evolution prepared us to desperately seek caloric abundance and sedentary lifestyles since those things were so rare in the past. Now that we have them constantly, expecting people to fight their wiring is like expecting clocks to run backwards.
While you’re both scientifically and pragmatically wrong that it’s “calories in, calories out”
More concerning than that is your belief that you are accurate and could never be wrong. That folks with obesity are simply tarnished with an inability to have self control.
You couldn’t be more incorrect. Furthermore, the fact you think an epidemic and issue that affects millions could be summed down into four words… well it’s troubling.
The larger the problem, the more difficult the cause and more evasive the solution.
Another commenter accurately pointed it out. Your prejudice is blinding you.
monero-xmr|1 year ago
fwip|1 year ago
The human body responds in many complex ways to your diet, activity, food intake, etc. Different people absorb variable amounts of calories from the same food, depending on ethnicity, age, type of food, when it's consumed, their microbiome composition, whether they're dieting, the weather outside, etc, etc. And yet, the state of the art is still to "calculate" calories by just setting food on fire and measuring the heat released.
shrimp_emoji|1 year ago
Also,
> Eating a reasonable amount is easier than eating a lot.
isn't this disproved by the obesity epidemic? Evolution prepared us to desperately seek caloric abundance and sedentary lifestyles since those things were so rare in the past. Now that we have them constantly, expecting people to fight their wiring is like expecting clocks to run backwards.
digi59404|1 year ago
More concerning than that is your belief that you are accurate and could never be wrong. That folks with obesity are simply tarnished with an inability to have self control.
You couldn’t be more incorrect. Furthermore, the fact you think an epidemic and issue that affects millions could be summed down into four words… well it’s troubling.
The larger the problem, the more difficult the cause and more evasive the solution.
Another commenter accurately pointed it out. Your prejudice is blinding you.