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Mess with the fundamental hormonal balance honed over the eons of hunger and survival? What could go wrong?
by kingkawn 2y ago
Mess with the fundamental hormonal balance honed over the eons of hunger and survival? What could go wrong?
- delabay 2y agoSame could be said for the prevalence of processed food.
- wuiheerfoj 2y agoImplying getting clinically obese hasn’t already messed with the hormonal balance of hunger and survival?
- jonnycoder 2y agoIf you mean by mass producing energy dense processed foods that are much cheaper than meat and fruit, then yes I agree
- SirMaster 2y agoBut should we praise this as the fix? How about instead we fix the problem by making healthy foods and active lifestyles cheaper and more prevalent?
- op00to 2y agoYes. We should.
- ben_w 2y ago> How about instead we fix the problem by making healthy foods and active lifestyles cheaper and more prevalent? Good luck with that. Unhealthy habits and diets are popular (and delicious), and a lot of people resented even the minimal effort required to wear a mask during a pandemic of an airborne disease.
- worez 2y agosure, but how realistic is that, really?
- caeril 2y agoThat's an unrealistic fix. Even if Doritos, Big Macs, and french fries were expensive, most people would still eat them for their hyperpalatability. The only "fix" is to ban these foods, perform public executions of food company executives, institute mandatory kcal rationing, and bring back relentless fat shaming and discrimination. Personally, I prefer not living in a totalitarian dictatorship, so GLP-1 agonists seem like a slightly more humane option to me.
- nosefurhairdo 2y agoThis sounds like naturalistic fallacy, and the same argument could be applied to suggest all medication is bad. Also, our ancestors evolved to deal with food scarcity. It is precisely our adaptation for scarcity that predisposes modern humans for obesity. There are legitimate criticisms to be made of GLP agonists, but this isn't one of them.
- chpatrick 2y agoWell the argument is that modern society and food is very different from what our bodies evolved for, so the messing has already happened.
- xnx 2y agoModern problems require modern solutions.
- sunshowers 2y agoI think medical science is awesome.
- ben_w 2y agoPresumably the opposite of the thing that goes wrong when you mess with the same by systematically engineering a hyperstimulus to exploit it for money.