Dear Homies Who Say Health Is Just About The Choices You Make — I Present To You: Reality

Anytime someone points out that fast food is bad for you, there is — by the law of argument physics — an equal and opposite reaction of someone retorting that we have to make our own choices. I hear that, but what if your choices are shaped by billions of dollars of psychological research and…

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