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>speeders, drunk drivers Unsafe and drunk drivers are quite condemned. Obese people don't normally make hospital beds unavailable. If there was a safe, easy t

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• johnisgood 5y ago
  > If there was a safe, easy to take and effective vaccine against obesity, but they refused to take it, they would be condemned much more. Seriously? What about the good ol' "eat less" (excluding the rare cases where it is related to metabolism disorders)?
  • belltaco 5y ago
    In what world is "eat less" as easy or effective as getting a shot? Losing weight is quite hard and keeping it off is next to impossible, given that very few succeed. In case you're serious, you can read this. https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-part-ii-current-theories-of-obesity-are-inadequate/ https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...
    • johnisgood 5y ago
      Vaccination is used for prevention. Eating less is also prevention (or would you rather prefer "not eating a lot"?)... from getting obese. Once you are obese, eating less also could serve as a treatment; you lose weight.
      • belltaco 5y ago
        Maybe, but it's not easy at all unlike getting a vaccine. Otherwise we wouldn't be seeing a global epidemic of obesity. One has to eat less for a very long amount of time.
        • johnisgood 5y ago
          Are obese people starting off as obese though? I would think that they have to eat a lot to become obese to begin with, which suggests that eating less prevents one from getting obese[1]. Eating less is both prevention and treatment. [1] Excluding metabolic disorders