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Imagine thinking a pill is a solution to eating garbage food. There are still people who think that food is not to blame. No one was fat 150 years ago. What

Imagine thinking a pill is a solution to eating garbage food. There are still people who think that food is not to blame. No one was fat 150 years ago. What do you think will happen if people start gobbling up these pills while still eating garbage? It will just mask the damage being done to the body. Meanwhile big pharma will be rolling in cash while people will end up destroying their bodies even more.

toomuchtodo 4y ago
If I can eat garbage food and take a pill to mitigate the impacts, I’ll do that! I enjoy garbage food. Pizza, wings, sushi, pho, Thai, whatever you want to call it. I don’t want to eat a Mediterranean diet in perpetuity. If I can not exercise and take a pill to replicate the benefits of cardio and strength training, I’d also do that. I only have so many hours left to live, and I’d rather not spend it doing maintenance on my body. Life is short. I want all the benefits without the costs (time, restraint), and if science can make it happen, shut up and take my money. To argue there’s a moral hazard here is…strange, if we have the capability and the side effects can be managed.
- oifjsidjf 4y ago
  You are free to do so! Just don't be suprised when in 20 years "the science" will tell you that they were wrong (again) lol.
  - toomuchtodo 4y ago
    Hopefully I’m dead by then having lived an enjoyable life ;) my grandmother is in her 90s sitting around waiting to die. Healthy but mostly unable to do anything worth doing. Eats cookies and drinks coffee, watches TV, that’s it. Not for me!
nrb 4y ago
> No one was fat 150 years ago. Caloric surplus is not a new phenomenon, ancient Rome had obesity. It’s definitely become much easier to gain a surplus with all this processed food but I just don’t see behaviors changing anytime soon, so anything that reduces the pressure on our health care systems is worth investigating.
jjeaff 4y ago
Garbage food is not the only cause. More people did physical jobs 150 years ago too and food was much more expensive relative to income. You can easily gain weight eating too much healthy food.

toomuchtodo 4y ago

If I can eat garbage food and take a pill to mitigate the impacts, I’ll do that! I enjoy garbage food. Pizza, wings, sushi, pho, Thai, whatever you want to call it. I don’t want to eat a Mediterranean diet in perpetuity. If I can not exercise and take a pill to replicate the benefits of cardio and strength training, I’d also do that. I only have so many hours left to live, and I’d rather not spend it doing maintenance on my body. Life is short. I want all the benefits without the costs (time, restraint), and if science can make it happen, shut up and take my money. To argue there’s a moral hazard here is…strange, if we have the capability and the side effects can be managed.

oifjsidjf 4y ago
You are free to do so! Just don't be suprised when in 20 years "the science" will tell you that they were wrong (again) lol.
- toomuchtodo 4y ago
  Hopefully I’m dead by then having lived an enjoyable life ;) my grandmother is in her 90s sitting around waiting to die. Healthy but mostly unable to do anything worth doing. Eats cookies and drinks coffee, watches TV, that’s it. Not for me!

nrb 4y ago

> No one was fat 150 years ago. Caloric surplus is not a new phenomenon, ancient Rome had obesity. It’s definitely become much easier to gain a surplus with all this processed food but I just don’t see behaviors changing anytime soon, so anything that reduces the pressure on our health care systems is worth investigating.

jjeaff 4y ago

Garbage food is not the only cause. More people did physical jobs 150 years ago too and food was much more expensive relative to income. You can easily gain weight eating too much healthy food.