> It’s more a spiritual / moral decline of culture in the west
It's not just the West.
"Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population" [1]. (It's about 7% in America [2].) Meanwhile in China, "the incidence of overweight and obesity among school-age children...was 15.5% in 2010, rising to 24.2% in 2019 and soaring to 29.4% in 2022" [2]. Same story in Vietnam: "The prevalence of overweight among children aged under 5 years increased from 5.6% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2019. For overweight and obesity among children aged 5 to 19 years, prevalence rose from 8.5% and 2.5% in 2010 to 19% and 8.1% in 2020, respectively" [3].
OP is right. "If everyone just..." is shorthand for wishing upon a star that the world were different. It's not a serious solution for reality as it is. (To the degree there is a social trust variable at play, it's in folks doing mental gymnastics to reject the clinical data.)
It's not just the West.
"Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population" [1]. (It's about 7% in America [2].) Meanwhile in China, "the incidence of overweight and obesity among school-age children...was 15.5% in 2010, rising to 24.2% in 2019 and soaring to 29.4% in 2022" [2]. Same story in Vietnam: "The prevalence of overweight among children aged under 5 years increased from 5.6% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2019. For overweight and obesity among children aged 5 to 19 years, prevalence rose from 8.5% and 2.5% in 2010 to 19% and 8.1% in 2020, respectively" [3].
OP is right. "If everyone just..." is shorthand for wishing upon a star that the world were different. It's not a serious solution for reality as it is. (To the degree there is a social trust variable at play, it's in folks doing mental gymnastics to reject the clinical data.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_India
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10357130/
[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9947684/