• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The up coming weight loss drugs. I’m moderately over weight and been fighting it 20 years.

    Having some help there would be a god send for a lot of people and I’m slightly optimistic on this round of drugs.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, companies starting an obesity epidemic by pumping us full of government subsidized corn syrup, only to solve that by getting us reliant on an exorbitantly expensive drug that you have to inject every day. How I love capitalism.

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        11 months ago

        God fucking forbid we take any self responsibility.

        I eat pretty much zero processed food and it’s incredibly easy and inexpensive.

        I’m fat because I eat and snack too much and it’s 100% my fault.

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          I’m fat because I eat and snack too much and it’s 100% my fault.

          I eat too much junk, too, but I am in pretty good shape.

          I also know quite a few people who just don’t have the urge to eat a lot. They tend to eat small amounts, don’t finish their meals, sometimes forget to eat a meal when they’re busy. It is completely not relatable for someone like me.

          Between the fact that people can eat a lot without getting fat, and that people don’t all have the same baseline urge to eat, I’d recommend you go a bit easier on yourself.

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          11 months ago

          There are medical issues that cause weight gain fyi. Not everyone that is overweight can control it.

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            11 months ago

            That’s fine, I completely agree. That has nothing to do with bullshit corps forced shitty food down my throat I was responding to.

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          11 months ago

          Saying that out loud nowadays makes you a public enemy in quite a few circles, sadly enough.

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      11 months ago

      We’ve literally wasted decades because we’ve treated obesity as a personal failing rather than researching the problem.

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        11 months ago

        Perhaps I’m ignorant, but obesity is largely a personal problem, no? The core issue is consuming more calories than the body is expensing, so how is that anyone else’s’ problem?

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          11 months ago

          Do you think people magically started overeating just recently? There have there been changes in our food, changes in how we digest and our gut microbiome, pollutants like microplastics and forever chemicals, or other factors could have an influence on why we are getting fatter.

          We created narcan and methadone even though that is at least as much a personal failing.

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            11 months ago

            Do you think people magically started overeating just recently?

            Poor people? Absolutely. They couldn’t afford enough calories to get fat.

            There have always been fat rich people.

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              11 months ago

              Food has been cheap and plentiful since the 50s. Obesity started decades later.