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The issue is not whether it works; it’s whether someone can stay compliant long enough for it to work
by aareet 2mo ago
The issue is not whether it works; it’s whether someone can stay compliant long enough for it to work
- tasuki 2mo agoLong enough in this case meaning forever. Behavioural changes work, the issue is that most people don't actually change their behaviour.
- toasty228 2mo agoIt's a lifestyle, the optimal basic lifestyle, the one were you don't shorten your life/healthspan by decades. It's how thing were intended to be really. It's funny how proposing an healthy diet is unrealistic and watching fatties eat themselves to death is the new normal, complete value inversion and looser mentality
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoLifestyle changes are essentially standard medical advice. There is nothing wrong with proposing diet and exercise. It's just that you should probably suggest other treatments in addition to the lifestyle changes that have relatively low long term efficacy. Of course, that assumes your goal is to actually help the fatties instead of judging them.
- tasuki 2mo ago> Of course, that assumes your goal is to actually help the fatties I don't believe that's possible. They have to choose a healthier lifestyle by themselves. It's not that people are fat because no one told them to eat healthy and exercise sometimes. They're fat because they have ignored that advice for a long time. They aren't missing information about diet and exercise, they're missing diet and exercise.
- amanaplanacanal 2mo agoYou don't believe it's possible? Obviously it's possible! Look around, we have what are essentially miracle drugs available, and you are still pushing ideas that have mostly failed for the last 50 years!
- toasty228 2mo agoFailed for the past 50 years but worked for the last 300 000 years I wonder what changed in between? Maybe our food and our relation to it? Who knows right?
- amanaplanacanal 2mo agoSomething in the environment changed for sure. There are many theories. Some of them include the rise of ultra-palatable foods, the rise of plasticisers in the environment fucking with our hormones, the greater exposure to lithium, the rise of the "low fat" has in the 70s, and probably others.
- Shitty-kitty 2mo agoMy wife and I both eat the same healthy Mediterranean diet (born in the region) Yet she is obese. Her body simply doesn't send the "that's enough" signals when it should and she overeats. It is possible to get get fat on a healthy diet, it is just easier with high calorie junk.
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- catchnear4321 2mo agoyou don’t seem amused so much as annoyed. perhaps you can elaborate on how systemic death spirals are funny?