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On the one hand, reducing obesity by 15-20% with a pill is pretty amazing. That certainly reduces negative outcomes and improves people's lives (and saves socie
by curtis3389 3y ago
On the one hand, reducing obesity by 15-20% with a pill is pretty amazing. That certainly reduces negative outcomes and improves people's lives (and saves society money).
On the other hand, pharmaceutical companies only care about money and the chemistry is pretty straight-forward. They will continue making new drugs, and they will certainly release a "newer and better" version when their patents run out.
But, there will certainly be unintended consequences, and we still don't have a good understanding of the cause of the obesity epidemic.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago> and we still don't have a good understanding of the cause of the obesity epidemic. yes, we do. it's not rocket science. sedentary lifestyle + huge amounts of cheap calories, esp. cheap carbohydrates. the Japanese are much skinnier than the US because the eat ~1000 calories less than the US. much of Asia and the ME are skinnier due to poverty and climate -- easy to be thin when you live in a sauna. and they're rapidly catching up to the US; America just got there first, and hard.