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I believe AI along with smart glasses that shows and calculates your daily caloric intake will be a SUBSTITUTE (another option) to the Ozempics. With AI glasse

I believe AI along with smart glasses that shows and calculates your daily caloric intake will be a SUBSTITUTE (another option) to the Ozempics. With AI glasses doing this automatically for you upon seeing what your eating without u having to do anything some people may be shocked to learn how many calories they consume daily. Currently, it's too time consuming now for the majority to do (i use GPT via texting it or talking to it to keep track as I eat out daily at healthy chains) but if it was done automagically I believe it definitely would be a substitute to Ozempic. I bet some or more would use that easily captured data that's shown to them (in the glasses or on their mobile device) to strive, make and possibly compete with their friends/family to eat less calories and carry less weight on them (be healthier). You can train your body to eat less to a lot less and for some that would definitely help them shed weight. The glasses could as well deduct calories burned from your daily walk, jog, etc. *Being downvoted hmmm do you think AI by seeing it can't via an image calculate the calories of a burrito bought from Chipolte and other chains? All chains have nutrition information on their websites now that GPT goes and fetches. As for home cooked prepared meals I have taken pics of my food via GPT and it seemed to come close.

__turbobrew__ 1y ago
I don’t think awareness of caloric intake is the problem, there are standardized labels on most foods (especially the bad ones). Most people who are obese know that the calories make them overweight, but they still have the need to eat food — which is what makes obesity a result of addiction. Similarly meth addicts know that meth is bad for them, but they still do it anyways.
- astrange 1y ago
  How often do people control their own diets? That assumes they buy and cook all their own food, which is only true if you live on your own.
  - __turbobrew__ 1y ago
    > How often do people control their own diets Maybe I live in a bubble, but I don’t put stuff in my body unwillingly, so yes I control my diet. It also isn’t rocket science, I know doughnuts have a shit ton of calories and vegetable shortening which will clkg your arteries, so I don’t eat doughnuts. I don’t have to look at the packaging. Maybe the missing part is a proper education on nutrition in school, but we live in the age of the internet. All the information is there, you can get meal plans, you can figure out what foods are more likely to put you at risk. Again, I don’t believe awareness is an issue. People know that chips and doughnuts are bad, but they eat them anyways because they are addicted to food which is engineered to be addictive.
    - astrange 1y ago
      > Maybe I live in a bubble, but I don’t put stuff in my body unwillingly, so yes I control my diet. The example I'm thinking of is cultures with near-religious obligations to listen to their parents. Like Italian-Americans all act like they'd die if they ever ate less than all of their grandmother's cooking or ever changed any of the traditional recipes. Even though the recipes were all invented in 1970 in NYC and have inhumanly large amounts of carbs.
  - const_cast 1y ago
    You don't have to - all the fast food menus I've seen contain caloric information. Right on the menu. People still eat it. Somewhat similar to how a carton of cigs contains a big warning that says "THIS WILL KILL YOU DO NOT SMOKE THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES" Welp...
- paul7986 1y ago
  Sure and I didnt say it would replace Ozempics rather it's a substitute that would help a portion of the population. Yet majority of all people have no idea the amount of calories they eat daily. Im sure being shown this automagically will be valuable data to all people just how they choose to use this optional feature to make changes or not.
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  > which is what makes obesity a result of addiction. Obesity is not (in general) a result of addiction.
lbrito 1y ago
People with poor restraint will remain unfazed. If what you're suggesting worked, then the horrible cancer pics on cig packs would have long eliminated smoking.
- paul7986 1y ago
  well for those mid level to have strong restraint this is going to be helpful! I already do this with chatGPT but i have to do something vs. just living and glasses doing it automatically.
- paul7986 1y ago
  I did say it will be a substitute to the Ozempics not a replacement. For those who don't have the will power there's the Ozempics to utilize at their discretion. For those who do have some or a lot of will power to change their lifestyle forever then this is going to be extremely helpful and those types wont be using Ozempics as Im sure such types are using it now.
- ChadNauseam 1y ago
  I agree with you. However, smoking rates have gone down, probably in part because of those pictures and awareness campaigns in general
  - _9ptr 1y ago
    I can't support this with data, but I'd think the increase in price and compounding effect of more and more people quitting, plus absence of smoking in the media, has had more of an effect
    - arp242 1y ago
      I knew several people for whom the pictures were the "final push" to really quit back when they were first introduced. Not sure if it's easy to get good data to separate out all the factors such as cost, in-your-face warnings, etc. because they all happened more or less at the same time. As an aside, I watched Poor Things this afternoon, and it came with a "Contains Tobacco Depictions" warning at the start. Never seen that before. No warning for the nudity, sex, or profanity.
lumost 1y ago
You're being downvoted as many people who try to count calories fail to achieve meaningful results. From my own experience, weight gain follows a simple progression. 1. Expected high stress work day -> Coffee w/ food item in the morning 2. Stress during the day -> No exercise + large lunch. 3. Post-day -> door dash due to not feeling up for cooking. 4. Sleep -> Get 6 hours of sleep due to not having the energy to maintain bedtime discipline, getting paged, or late night meetings + childcare obligations. 5. Repeat. This cycle continues for a few months leading to 10-20 pounds of weight gain, followed by a year long push to rebalance life and lose the weight. There is nothing that a magic calorie counter could do for this cycle other than guilt me over my door dash order at the end of the night.
- pmg102 1y ago
  People seem to be taking it as given that "someone else preparing the food for you" == "the food is more likely to lead to weight gain". Why should that be? Is it not possible to order healthy food in? If not this would surprise me as it seems a number of people would be seeking this. I'm asking as I don't have personal experience.
  - paul7986 1y ago
    Everyone lives and enjoy life as they choose as they should! For those who are not interested cutting down daily on what they eat this data would not be valuable to them just as the data their phone captures now how many steps you walked in a day. Myself I eat Cava bowls for lunch that are less then 600 calories, drink 70 percent water (not consuming calories from what I drink) and unsweet tea (zero calories in tea) with some lemonade to sweeten it a bit as the remainder. Other chains you can find similar meals that are less then 600. If you eat as such and keep at (change ur lifestyle for good) it some weight will be lost if the person wants to as well go for a walk on their lunch break. But again all about to how people want to live and enjoy their lives!
  - lumost 1y ago
    The ordering out tends to correlate with someone not having the energy or discipline to make what they want themselves. That lack of energy leads to caving on food cravings and overeating. I recently switched from a major tech company to an academic position and lost 5 pounds in the first month. Simply due to lower stress making the healthy habits seem “easy.”

__turbobrew__ 1y ago

I don’t think awareness of caloric intake is the problem, there are standardized labels on most foods (especially the bad ones). Most people who are obese know that the calories make them overweight, but they still have the need to eat food — which is what makes obesity a result of addiction. Similarly meth addicts know that meth is bad for them, but they still do it anyways.

astrange 1y ago
How often do people control their own diets? That assumes they buy and cook all their own food, which is only true if you live on your own.
- __turbobrew__ 1y ago
  > How often do people control their own diets Maybe I live in a bubble, but I don’t put stuff in my body unwillingly, so yes I control my diet. It also isn’t rocket science, I know doughnuts have a shit ton of calories and vegetable shortening which will clkg your arteries, so I don’t eat doughnuts. I don’t have to look at the packaging. Maybe the missing part is a proper education on nutrition in school, but we live in the age of the internet. All the information is there, you can get meal plans, you can figure out what foods are more likely to put you at risk. Again, I don’t believe awareness is an issue. People know that chips and doughnuts are bad, but they eat them anyways because they are addicted to food which is engineered to be addictive.
  - astrange 1y ago
    > Maybe I live in a bubble, but I don’t put stuff in my body unwillingly, so yes I control my diet. The example I'm thinking of is cultures with near-religious obligations to listen to their parents. Like Italian-Americans all act like they'd die if they ever ate less than all of their grandmother's cooking or ever changed any of the traditional recipes. Even though the recipes were all invented in 1970 in NYC and have inhumanly large amounts of carbs.
- const_cast 1y ago
  You don't have to - all the fast food menus I've seen contain caloric information. Right on the menu. People still eat it. Somewhat similar to how a carton of cigs contains a big warning that says "THIS WILL KILL YOU DO NOT SMOKE THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES" Welp...
paul7986 1y ago
Sure and I didnt say it would replace Ozempics rather it's a substitute that would help a portion of the population. Yet majority of all people have no idea the amount of calories they eat daily. Im sure being shown this automagically will be valuable data to all people just how they choose to use this optional feature to make changes or not.
dragonwriter 1y ago
> which is what makes obesity a result of addiction. Obesity is not (in general) a result of addiction.

lbrito 1y ago

People with poor restraint will remain unfazed. If what you're suggesting worked, then the horrible cancer pics on cig packs would have long eliminated smoking.

paul7986 1y ago
well for those mid level to have strong restraint this is going to be helpful! I already do this with chatGPT but i have to do something vs. just living and glasses doing it automatically.
paul7986 1y ago
I did say it will be a substitute to the Ozempics not a replacement. For those who don't have the will power there's the Ozempics to utilize at their discretion. For those who do have some or a lot of will power to change their lifestyle forever then this is going to be extremely helpful and those types wont be using Ozempics as Im sure such types are using it now.
ChadNauseam 1y ago
I agree with you. However, smoking rates have gone down, probably in part because of those pictures and awareness campaigns in general
- _9ptr 1y ago
  I can't support this with data, but I'd think the increase in price and compounding effect of more and more people quitting, plus absence of smoking in the media, has had more of an effect
  - arp242 1y ago
    I knew several people for whom the pictures were the "final push" to really quit back when they were first introduced. Not sure if it's easy to get good data to separate out all the factors such as cost, in-your-face warnings, etc. because they all happened more or less at the same time. As an aside, I watched Poor Things this afternoon, and it came with a "Contains Tobacco Depictions" warning at the start. Never seen that before. No warning for the nudity, sex, or profanity.

lumost 1y ago

You're being downvoted as many people who try to count calories fail to achieve meaningful results. From my own experience, weight gain follows a simple progression. 1. Expected high stress work day -> Coffee w/ food item in the morning 2. Stress during the day -> No exercise + large lunch. 3. Post-day -> door dash due to not feeling up for cooking. 4. Sleep -> Get 6 hours of sleep due to not having the energy to maintain bedtime discipline, getting paged, or late night meetings + childcare obligations. 5. Repeat. This cycle continues for a few months leading to 10-20 pounds of weight gain, followed by a year long push to rebalance life and lose the weight. There is nothing that a magic calorie counter could do for this cycle other than guilt me over my door dash order at the end of the night.

pmg102 1y ago
People seem to be taking it as given that "someone else preparing the food for you" == "the food is more likely to lead to weight gain". Why should that be? Is it not possible to order healthy food in? If not this would surprise me as it seems a number of people would be seeking this. I'm asking as I don't have personal experience.
- paul7986 1y ago
  Everyone lives and enjoy life as they choose as they should! For those who are not interested cutting down daily on what they eat this data would not be valuable to them just as the data their phone captures now how many steps you walked in a day. Myself I eat Cava bowls for lunch that are less then 600 calories, drink 70 percent water (not consuming calories from what I drink) and unsweet tea (zero calories in tea) with some lemonade to sweeten it a bit as the remainder. Other chains you can find similar meals that are less then 600. If you eat as such and keep at (change ur lifestyle for good) it some weight will be lost if the person wants to as well go for a walk on their lunch break. But again all about to how people want to live and enjoy their lives!
- lumost 1y ago
  The ordering out tends to correlate with someone not having the energy or discipline to make what they want themselves. That lack of energy leads to caving on food cravings and overeating. I recently switched from a major tech company to an academic position and lost 5 pounds in the first month. Simply due to lower stress making the healthy habits seem “easy.”