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Habits Aren’t the Only Path to Health Behavior Change

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There's just such rigidity around these things. And i think it does trace back to, you mentioned at the very beginning of the conversation that a part of behavior is cultural. You either do them or you don't. Whereas in the case of friendships or parenting, there's a much more learned flexibility. But for some reason with health behaviors, we we don't expect that to be the case. We might have an ideal, but if most people can't sustain an ideal, then they have nothing.

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