Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds

Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by xiphias2 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:32PM (#25888023)

It seems like you made a choice that lowers your life standard. If you want lots of money while living healthy, move to Switzerland. But of course there are many other options.

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by projektfu on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:43PM (#25888121)

I'm imagining the Swiss watching in horror as a caravan of thousands of obese American refugees arrives at their frontier...

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by geofft on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:44PM (#25888131)

I mean, if they're gay, moving to the US from Iran probably did not lower their life expectancy.

But more generally - we can't ask everyone in the US to move out of the country, can we? So it seems worth figuring out how to get the US to be healthier.

(And in any case, the linked study happened in Spain.)

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Re:Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds by xiphias2 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:10PM (#25888318)

It’s not about asking people to do something.

I lived 6 years in Switzerland and a guy who moved from London to Zurich told me that he lost 10kg in a year just because people don’t let him eat crappy food, and on the weekends people go hiking and skiing, not to pubs.

Sometimes changing the situation is the easiest way to change someone’s lifestyle.

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