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Oversimplification. Brown rice and fructose, for example, are metabolized very differently from one another. I do agree that pinpointing a lower-level MOA other
by sedivy94 5y ago
Oversimplification. Brown rice and fructose, for example, are metabolized very differently from one another. I do agree that pinpointing a lower-level MOA other than just “insulin” will be a valuable discovery. But that MOA, whatever it is, isn’t the root of the problem. Is anyone suggesting we ought to devise a pharmaceutical treatment for broken behavioral patterns, income inequality, and mass production of processed foods?
- xmodem 5y ago> Is anyone suggesting we ought to devise a pharmaceutical treatment for broken behavioral patterns, I don't see why the hell not. We already have these in the form of treatments for alcohol/nicotine/opiate dependence.
- vidarh 5y ago> Is anyone suggesting we ought to devise a pharmaceutical treatment for broken behavioral patterns, income inequality, and mass production of processed foods? Is it the most effective treatment? Then yes. That does not preclude also trying to avoid the problem in the first place. But fixing behavioural patterns is one of the things we are worst at. Fixing diabetes won't fix all of the other issues of a bad diet, so it's not like the incentive to improve peoples diets will go out the window, though it might reduce the individual incentives for some people. But that's true for all kinds of things - we can't withhold treatment options because some people will take the availability of treatment as a reason not to be cautious.