4 ms·

I really don't understand arguments like this - the problem is that some people have digestive systems that are "too" efficient, and so the "solution" is to cri

I really don't understand arguments like this - the problem is that some people have digestive systems that are "too" efficient, and so the "solution" is to cripple their ability to properly absorb nutrients. It seems rather wasteful.

anonymous 14y ago
Not quite. More like some people have "hoarding" digestive systems that refuse to let excess nutrients be expelled. I do agree that having people waste food is bad, but having unhealthy obese people is even worse.
geuis 14y ago
I don't know if you're thin or overweight. I'm fat, always have been. I'll admit to a past of bad eating habits that put me where I am. But the point is that we live with an excess of calories around us. If I have a certain kind of over-efficient gut bacteria helping me out, the survival mechanism in my situation supports the less-efficient variety. Too many calories, whatever their source, has a huge negative effect on my life.
OGinparadise 14y ago
It seems rather wasteful. Honestly who cares? It's not like the food saved will go to feed a starving kid in Africa or something. Food is rotting in warehouses already, so it' more of a logistics /distribution thing. That takes time to solve and is a totally separate issue from the medical one..of people dying and suffering from fat /obesity. Different groups can work on separate issues.
- king_jester 14y ago
  > That takes time to solve and is a totally separate issue from the medical one..of people dying and suffering from fat /obesity. AFAIK, studies about deaths correlated or caused by being fat have been totally debunked and had nothing to do with body weight in the first place. To that end, one does not die from being fat and being fat doesn't mean you are suffering (except for how people and society treats you as a fat person).
  - jwoah12 14y ago
    Sources?

4 ms·

I really don't understand arguments like this - the problem is that some people have digestive systems that are "too" efficient, and so the "solution" is to cri

by david_ar 14y ago

anonymous 14y ago
Not quite. More like some people have "hoarding" digestive systems that refuse to let excess nutrients be expelled. I do agree that having people waste food is bad, but having unhealthy obese people is even worse.
geuis 14y ago
I don't know if you're thin or overweight. I'm fat, always have been. I'll admit to a past of bad eating habits that put me where I am. But the point is that we live with an excess of calories around us. If I have a certain kind of over-efficient gut bacteria helping me out, the survival mechanism in my situation supports the less-efficient variety. Too many calories, whatever their source, has a huge negative effect on my life.
OGinparadise 14y ago
It seems rather wasteful. Honestly who cares? It's not like the food saved will go to feed a starving kid in Africa or something. Food is rotting in warehouses already, so it' more of a logistics /distribution thing. That takes time to solve and is a totally separate issue from the medical one..of people dying and suffering from fat /obesity. Different groups can work on separate issues.
- king_jester 14y ago
  > That takes time to solve and is a totally separate issue from the medical one..of people dying and suffering from fat /obesity. AFAIK, studies about deaths correlated or caused by being fat have been totally debunked and had nothing to do with body weight in the first place. To that end, one does not die from being fat and being fat doesn't mean you are suffering (except for how people and society treats you as a fat person).
  - jwoah12 14y ago
    Sources?