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I could eat all the junk food I wanted when I was at work 12-15 hours a day setting up, programming, and running CNC machines across a 60K square foot building without ever worrying about my weight.

Now that I do design work, I'm more stagnant, and what I eat is really important. Phasing in something like swimming, running, etc, can restore the balance where I can keep old food habits without being fat.

There are two sides to it, calories, need a way of getting burned. Calories are different from nutrition. You can grow fat and starve to death at the same time if all you are getting is calories.

Ultimately, rising obesity is just a side effect of problems better discussed in PARF. Until you hit the real roots (information acquisition and decision making), you simply make life more expensive with your plans.