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The status quo (obesity) is extremely dangerous, so whatever potential danger you're thinking may exist would have to exceed that.
by hackerlight 2y ago
The status quo (obesity) is extremely dangerous, so whatever potential danger you're thinking may exist would have to exceed that.
- TibbityFlanders 2y agoUnless that's a false dichotomy. Obesity can be treated in less harmful ways. Companies can be regulated into only including a safe amount of sugar in drinks and foods that arent considered sweets
- Meekro 2y agoBut when are those changes going to happen? Ozempic is available today.
- makeitdouble 2y ago> extremely dangerous I wish I could just quip a "citation needed", but we're at a point where the visceral hate for fat includes researchers spitting out feel good papers going with the flow, as funding is basically guaranteed. We don't have satanists, so this has become our day's moral panic IMHO: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6885862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6885862/
- xenospn 2y agoAre you suggesting obesity is not harmful?
- makeitdouble 2y agoObesity is correlated to potentially harmful issues. That's a difference that matters when people reverse the goals and the means, reducing obesity often doesn't equate to solving the related issues.