I don’t think that personal experience with the problem of wanting to lose weight is the only factor.
This is also a tribal conflict of academia vs. internet wisdom.
Stop eating so much carbohydrates isn’t much more complex than, saying eat less calories.
Good point. It seems pretty common for people who study social phenomena — even heavily moralized ones, like crime — to have more compassion for the people involved in them than the “conventional wisdom” does.
I don’t think that personal experience with the problem of wanting to lose weight is the only factor.
This is also a tribal conflict of academia vs. internet wisdom.
Stop eating so much carbohydrates isn’t much more complex than, saying eat less calories.
Good point. It seems pretty common for people who study social phenomena — even heavily moralized ones, like crime — to have more compassion for the people involved in them than the “conventional wisdom” does.