I'm an obese dude. I know a whole lot about nutrition and exercise. I cook for myself. I'm pretty active. Lets take a look at these recommendations:
* actions to support healthy practices from day 1, including breastfeeding promotion, protection and support;
I was breast-fed as a child. I am a big chonk.
* regulations on the harmful marketing of food and beverages to children;
school food and nutrition policies, including initiatives to regulate the sales of products high in fats, sugars and salt in proximity of schools;
I ate school lunch and only school lunch as a child, which was certainly not good, and was almost certainly never adequate in terms of nutrition for my early 6'+ frame. I am a big chonk.
* fiscal and pricing policies to promote healthy diets;
And this means what? I am a big chonk.
* nutrition labelling policies;
It's important to have nutrition labeling. Let's say I'm on a blood thinner that's sensitive to vitamin K due to genetic issues. Will that be part of the labeling? No? Well OK then. Not very helpful. That said, I can read calories and the macros. Nevertheless, I am a big chonk.
* public education and awareness campaigns for healthy diets and exercise;
Look, there have been public education and awareness campaigns for healthy diets and exercise for decades or even centuries. I personally needed to participate in the President's Physical Fitness test in the US, which I understand has been present since (checks notes) ah, the 1800s. Despite participating, I am a big chonk.
* standards for physical activity in schools;
I fully participated in gym classes to the best of my ability. Even my PE teachers were impressed with my efforts, despite the fact that I was a big chonk. I have remained active, and likely more so than average, in adulthood. I am still a big chonk.
* integration of obesity prevention and management services into primary health care.
Indeed, I have had many doctors make me feel bad about being a big chonk.
Look, none of this matters. I'm a 6'4" big chonk that '70s medicine was totally unprepared for, and there's more of us now. Something is going on that is making us big, and is making us hungry. I don't know what it is. I've spent my life trying to regulate it, and... education is not the answer. I know calories, I know my macros, I know nutrition, and the question here is... what can I eat that doesn't make me hungry?
The recent GLPs have helped. But there's a bigger question of why this is the way things are for an increasing number of us.
As a fellow chonk, if you want a serious answer to what makes you feel full, it's protein and complex carbohydrates (generally stuff with a shitload of fiber).
As for what's making us bigger, it's cheap and easy access to high-calorie foods that don't make you feel full (generally high simple carb foods like candy, cake, chips etc). A candy bar or can of regular soda is over 10% of someone's daily calorie intake and probably double their recommended sugar intake. And they're everywhere; gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants. I can't remember the last time I was more than 5 minutes away from some massive sugar source.
Portion sizes have also gotten out of hand as restaurants competed on portion size to give customers "value". A serving of beef is something like the size of a stack of playing cards. Most restaurants are handing out 2-4x that, and people start to internalize that as how much they should be eating.
I think the pricing policies might be effective. Discourage restaurants from competing on caloric content, and make junk food more expensive. Probably not for the current generation, but maybe for future generations the same way as smoking.
If your weight is an issue for you, you may want to look at medical appetite suppressants. I've had good luck dieting with my ADHD meds with the appetite suppressing effect (when I'm consistent about trying anyways). Makes dieting a bit easier by taking hunger off the table.
I'm an obese dude. I know a whole lot about nutrition and exercise. I cook for myself. I'm pretty active. Lets take a look at these recommendations:
* actions to support healthy practices from day 1, including breastfeeding promotion, protection and support;
I was breast-fed as a child. I am a big chonk.
* regulations on the harmful marketing of food and beverages to children; school food and nutrition policies, including initiatives to regulate the sales of products high in fats, sugars and salt in proximity of schools;
I ate school lunch and only school lunch as a child, which was certainly not good, and was almost certainly never adequate in terms of nutrition for my early 6'+ frame. I am a big chonk.
* fiscal and pricing policies to promote healthy diets;
And this means what? I am a big chonk.
* nutrition labelling policies;
It's important to have nutrition labeling. Let's say I'm on a blood thinner that's sensitive to vitamin K due to genetic issues. Will that be part of the labeling? No? Well OK then. Not very helpful. That said, I can read calories and the macros. Nevertheless, I am a big chonk.
* public education and awareness campaigns for healthy diets and exercise;
Look, there have been public education and awareness campaigns for healthy diets and exercise for decades or even centuries. I personally needed to participate in the President's Physical Fitness test in the US, which I understand has been present since (checks notes) ah, the 1800s. Despite participating, I am a big chonk.
* standards for physical activity in schools;
I fully participated in gym classes to the best of my ability. Even my PE teachers were impressed with my efforts, despite the fact that I was a big chonk. I have remained active, and likely more so than average, in adulthood. I am still a big chonk.
* integration of obesity prevention and management services into primary health care.
Indeed, I have had many doctors make me feel bad about being a big chonk.
Look, none of this matters. I'm a 6'4" big chonk that '70s medicine was totally unprepared for, and there's more of us now. Something is going on that is making us big, and is making us hungry. I don't know what it is. I've spent my life trying to regulate it, and... education is not the answer. I know calories, I know my macros, I know nutrition, and the question here is... what can I eat that doesn't make me hungry?
The recent GLPs have helped. But there's a bigger question of why this is the way things are for an increasing number of us.