These people you describe are experiencing very real eating disorders. Even if they aren’t counting calories, they are keenly aware that they’re destroying their body. They aren’t silent, they’re addicted.
Socially acceptable eating disorders are the foundation of multiple hundred billion dollar companies.
Every junk and fast food company in America sells food that does not satisfy you, is unhealthy for you, has a "taste" that is not easy to replicate at home but that has been scientifically curated to prevent you from reaching the satiation point when you are eating them (like Pringles, "Bet you can't eat just one", but it's all of the foods all of the time), has less nutrition year over year despite artificial vitamin supplementation, and is just a hair less expensive than cooking it yourself with better ingredients.
It's not an eating disorder to eat junk food in America.
It's a symptom of a larger society wide dysfunction that any person who lived in a sane world and was suddenly subjected to would consider demonic/evil/abhorrent/terrifying.
Don't blame the victims. Recognize the blight for what it is.
It’s both. I do recognize, and agree with most of what you’re saying. The junk food industrial complex is real.
But people have autonomy and if you took their burgers away tomorrow they’d riot.
> It's not an eating disorder to eat junk food in America.
It absolutely is a disorder to eat to the level you described in your previous comment.
Just because millions of people take part in it, and it’s socially acceptable doesn’t make the way Americans eat not an eating disorder. They’re also aware, not silent, or ignorant. Everyone knows junk food and eating until you want to throw up is bad for you.
And yes I fully understand there are people out there inventing ways to make food even more addictive. Fuck those people. Those are the worst people.