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Agreed, I feel one result of political correctness has been a refusal to acknowledge how much obesity affects every aspect of your health. I used to be morbidly

Agreed, I feel one result of political correctness has been a refusal to acknowledge how much obesity affects every aspect of your health. I used to be morbidly obese and I was constantly sick up until I lost 70 or so pounds and got to a reasonable weight. This also made dating so much easier. I'm going off on a tangent, but if I had to give one piece of advice to any young person it would be to get to a healthy weight. Tons of damage is done to your body for every day you're obese, and it's not always reversible even if you start eating right later. It's unsurprising countries with obesity epidemics such as the United States have higher rates of covid mortality. There have been several stories where someone in their twenties dies of covid, but until you see the photo you had no idea they were morbidly obese. If I had to guess I'd say in healthier populations many people may have covid and just shrug it off without necessarily getting tested and adding to case numbers.

brigandish 6y ago
> I'm going off on a tangent, but if I had to give one piece of advice to any young person it would be to get to a healthy weight. Following that tangent, I had a couple of family members turn 16 recently and I wondered what advice I could give them now that they are adults (or, at least, they will certainly believe that to be so! Ah, the folly of youth:) My thoughts settled on what would basically be me telling my younger self about my regrets or (perceived) failings in life and to avoid them. I then wondered if they'd listen, which I doubt (again, the folly of youth) and whether I'd even be able to put it in a form that they would understand. Rather like me trying to teach them programming before they've opened a terminal or even an HTML file, I can't tell them the deepest insights until they've done quite a bit and failed quite a bit too. I haven't decided on my advice yet or if I should, but yours sounds good. Still, it's hard to realise what unhealthy means when you're young and fit, even if it's only relative to your older self.
- offtop5 6y ago
  A big part of being 16 is thinking that you know everything. But to be perfectly blunt, to a young man I would just tell him girls aren't going to really like you unless you get down to a healthy weight. That's the only thing that will probably get though.

brigandish 6y ago

> I'm going off on a tangent, but if I had to give one piece of advice to any young person it would be to get to a healthy weight. Following that tangent, I had a couple of family members turn 16 recently and I wondered what advice I could give them now that they are adults (or, at least, they will certainly believe that to be so! Ah, the folly of youth:) My thoughts settled on what would basically be me telling my younger self about my regrets or (perceived) failings in life and to avoid them. I then wondered if they'd listen, which I doubt (again, the folly of youth) and whether I'd even be able to put it in a form that they would understand. Rather like me trying to teach them programming before they've opened a terminal or even an HTML file, I can't tell them the deepest insights until they've done quite a bit and failed quite a bit too. I haven't decided on my advice yet or if I should, but yours sounds good. Still, it's hard to realise what unhealthy means when you're young and fit, even if it's only relative to your older self.

offtop5 6y ago
A big part of being 16 is thinking that you know everything. But to be perfectly blunt, to a young man I would just tell him girls aren't going to really like you unless you get down to a healthy weight. That's the only thing that will probably get though.