A common narrative, as I have often observed on Twitter and Hacker News, is that East Asia ought to serve as a role model for mitigating obesity in the US. The apparent success of East Asian countries at having low rates of obesity is something that can be emulated in the US, or that their lifestyles and diets are superior, as the comment below demonstrates: | Grey Enlightenment
Kevin D. Hall, a tenured Senior Investigator at the NIH, dismisses the possibility of obese people having abnormally slow metabolisms to account for their obesity and inability to lose weight:| Grey Enlightenment
