Is Lifestyle A Choice?

Here’s a quote from a piece in a European website:

Individuals have little choice for a healthy lifestyle if the environment in which the individual lives does not offer the choice.

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Most Americans probably wouldn’t agree with this statement. We tend to believe that each person chooses his or her path in life, and should be willing to deal with the consequences. That doesn’t mean the healthy choice is always the easier one: we’ve seen lots of evidence that the environment we’re in puts some pretty bad choices in our faces all the time (those pesky huge food portions, for example).

So what do you think? Does the social environment make a healthy lifestyle too difficult for most people?

Add comment June 14th, 2006