The game is not fair, but here are the rules. The system gets to pollute and poison the food supply, deprive you of movement in your cubicle, and expose you to stresses your ancestors didn’t face. Because they didn’t, you don’t have the instinctive resources to do so. And by the way, one way your system is programmed to cope with these stressors is by increasing your food consumption.

You get to deal with it, take full responsibility and stay slender. Failure to do so results in a va...

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