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Are you suggesting that race and weight are equally immutable? Or that man-made consequences (incarceration) is the same as automatic health consequences (heart

• ceejayoz 3y ago
  > Are you suggesting that race and weight are equally immutable? Statistically, they're pretty close. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221839/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221839/ "The percentage of individuals who lose weight and successfully maintain the loss has been estimated to be as small as 1 to 3 percent." Every intervention outside of bariatric surgery and maybe these new drugs (we still need to see how those patients are doing in a decade) is virtually guaranteed to fail.
  • anovikov 3y ago
    That's exactly my point. Nearly as immutable as race.
  • anovikov 3y ago
    So sounds like, it is even more immutable than race. Because 1-3% is smaller than a ratio of people with 1/8 to 1/32 African blood, to those with >50% African blood, and those people between 1/8 and 1/32 have a fluid racial identity that depends on their circle of contacts, neighbourhood, and personal choice (see https://archive.is/uMVKL https://archive.is/uMVKL). Someone literally has a better chance at changing their race than losing weight. "Anti-obesity propaganda" is as good as KKK to alienate a large group of people, and will achieve little else.