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This is about as helpful as saying the solution is to pray more. You're not wrong, but very few obese people are willing/able to do it. > Medicating obesity is
by HDThoreaun 4y ago
This is about as helpful as saying the solution is to pray more. You're not wrong, but very few obese people are willing/able to do it.
> Medicating obesity is like taking pills to make smoking healthy.
This is wrong though. Eating is not unhealthy. Overeating is. These drugs stop people from overeating.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI've never met anyone who just managed to lose lots of weight and maintain their healthy weight all by themselves. Combating obesity requires huge changes to one's lifestyle, with months or even years of feeling (slightly) hungry as a side effect. Very few people have such discipline. It's not a measure of willing, it's about access to treatment that isn't a nice, quick, profitable pill that you end up hooked on.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoBut that's the point... These drugs simply make you less hungry. They take what was the herculean task of eating less than your body urges you to and turns it into feeling totally stuffed after 1000 calories a day. It's no longer a question of willpower or suffering all day feeling hungry.