I suppose self-induced when the weapon is food is, technically, natural.
I’m reading someone (very sadly) doing destructive testing on their own cardiovascular, pulmonary, integumentary, and alimentary systems, seemingly without a control specimen.
Hopefully you’re right about far off, but everything I’ve seen reading through some of these posts implies that further off isn’t growing more likely.
have 1 item per list and no more,
with only 3 priority levels:
on deadline, life, wonderland.
make sure to stack whats finished.
'reorganize' lists you didn't get around to yet,
regularly; just to know what's on them in case
you ever stumble upon something that might
extend one of the puzzles around those wondrous
subject and objects on your many lists.
Same in Europe. The obesity itself is just part of the problem. Negative effects on cognition, willpower, stress hormone levels, "fatigue" and so on.
It gets people into moods, the blood sugar levels and the stress hormone levels. Makes it easier to sell your product and your story. More stress at work, at school and then at home. Less peace equals striving for compensation and submitting yourself to something that gives you that compensation. It's a brutal story.
A tiny deviation from baseline levels is enough and that's exactly what the dietary guidelines resulted in. It was an "unintended" side effect for some time. Then there were patterns.
Singapore has a great coat of paint over its economic system so westerners think it’s pure capitalism but that’s a mirage.
- The majority of locals work directly (PSD, Government, Education) or indirectly (Temasek / GIC owned entities like CapitalLand, Surbana, Singapore Airlines, the three local banks, etc.
- 80% of the property market is directly under government control (HDB), with 20% heavily regulated but “free”
I could go on, but Singapore works precisely because it’s not free for all capitalism but a tightly controlled economy that makes sure the country benefits
This is off topic, but: are your summer holidays really only 6 weeks long? Which country is that? (In Russia, where I went to school, it's almost always three whole months.)