Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv...
by Barrin92 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:11PM
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obesity isn't a crisis of the healthcare system, it's a cultural crisis at a macro level. You don't need 'healthcare advice' as if giving individual people recommendations has any meaningful impact, you need to tackle it a social level. Living designed around movement rather than cars, prices up on high calorie foods, nationwide exercise programs in schools, put a ban on all ads for sugary drinks like Singapore did, etc.
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Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv...
by voidfunc on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:23PM
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Or you know we can just let people live and die as they want to. Inform them of the risks but we don't need to go to draconian levels to prevent this.
Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv...
by vasco on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:29AM
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Nobody likes to be obese or genuinely thinks it's better, they just post-rationalize it to feel better about a situation they deem to hard to change, in the same way some deaf people rationalize it's actually better to literally not hear. Humans will tell themselves anything to cope, and the only hope we have is that other humans call that out instead of enabling it. Or we just let society crumble from a health crisis that is totally preventable.
Health care money is limited and obesity kills people with other illnesses by taking away resources.