• @LemmyIsFantastic
    link
    33
    edit-2
    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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      2211 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.

      • @LemmyIsFantastic
        link
        511 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.

        • @GamingChairModel
          link
          1211 months ago

          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.

        • @eek2121
          link
          211 months ago

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

          • @LemmyIsFantastic
            link
            011 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.

        • @nevemsenki
          link
          011 months ago

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

      • @quams69
        link
        111 months ago

        deleted by creator

    • @derf82
      link
      English
      511 months ago

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

      • kryllic
        link
        fedilink
        011 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?

        • @derf82
          link
          English
          311 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.

          • conciselyverbose
            link
            fedilink
            111 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.

            • @derf82
              link
              English
              111 months ago

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