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Obesity is a complicated problem and we can’t blame corporations alone.

catchnear4321 2y ago
> …we can’t blame corporations alone. ok, but we can very much start with blaming corporations. sure, there are other factors at play, these are very large systems acting on individuals. that’s the point. corporations are sufficiently complex and large to manipulate the system. individuals rarely are, and when they do, it is often by forming a corporation around themselves. influencers are faces for larger operations, they have employees, payroll… just like a more traditional brick and mortar.
grouchomarx 2y ago
I'm willing to
jjtheblunt 2y ago
it's not super complicated for most cases: grams of sugar(s) ingested versus grams of essential nutrients (proteins, fats) is too high.
- firesteelrain 2y ago
  If most cases include people without diabetes, PCOS or some other condition, yes you can eat less than what you burn and you will lose weight. In other cases, those people need medical intervention such as Mounjaro, Ozempic, etc
  - jjtheblunt 2y ago
    I mean to point out that "signal to noise" is what's often being overlooked, though "noise to signal" is more descriptive terminology. it's very easy, in american fast food, for example, to ingest a great amount of unnecessary sugars (difficult to digest lipids, etc) while your body is trying to just get necessary nutrients themselves. worse, since we are built to remember results of eating, if some low nutritional signal to noise "food" satisfies some necessary essential nutrient craving, it's easy to remember what it was that alleviated a craving before, and tail recursively go eat the same shit again.
    - firesteelrain 2y ago
      Oh right makes sense. You crave it because it made you feel good yet is a low quality food. So the cycle repeats itself. I am going through a weight loss journey myself and it is very eye opening now that I am tracking my calories and nutrition. I was eating very poorly

> …we can’t blame corporations alone. ok, but we can very much start with blaming corporations. sure, there are other factors at play, these are very large systems acting on individuals. that’s the point. corporations are sufficiently complex and large to manipulate the system. individuals rarely are, and when they do, it is often by forming a corporation around themselves. influencers are faces for larger operations, they have employees, payroll… just like a more traditional brick and mortar.

grouchomarx 2y ago

I'm willing to

jjtheblunt 2y ago

it's not super complicated for most cases: grams of sugar(s) ingested versus grams of essential nutrients (proteins, fats) is too high.

firesteelrain 2y ago
If most cases include people without diabetes, PCOS or some other condition, yes you can eat less than what you burn and you will lose weight. In other cases, those people need medical intervention such as Mounjaro, Ozempic, etc
- jjtheblunt 2y ago
  I mean to point out that "signal to noise" is what's often being overlooked, though "noise to signal" is more descriptive terminology. it's very easy, in american fast food, for example, to ingest a great amount of unnecessary sugars (difficult to digest lipids, etc) while your body is trying to just get necessary nutrients themselves. worse, since we are built to remember results of eating, if some low nutritional signal to noise "food" satisfies some necessary essential nutrient craving, it's easy to remember what it was that alleviated a craving before, and tail recursively go eat the same shit again.
  - firesteelrain 2y ago
    Oh right makes sense. You crave it because it made you feel good yet is a low quality food. So the cycle repeats itself. I am going through a weight loss journey myself and it is very eye opening now that I am tracking my calories and nutrition. I was eating very poorly