Re:Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German p...
by mrguyorama on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:45PM
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>the cure you suggest fails on 95% of obese people
This has nothing to do with "Diet and exercise don't work" and everything to do with the fact that every single fat person KNOWS they are fat, already KNOWS diet and exercise are the solution, and has likely already tried diet and exercise in some way and couldn't manage it. People usually get fat because eating calorie dense foods feels good and people are desperate for anything to feel good because the average person has spent the last 6 decades being squeezed for every last drop of wealth by the ownership class, which it turns out is a very stressful experience.
Diet and exercise are extremely difficult to tack onto your existing life if you aren't already predisposed to it, and if you are already predisposed to it, you probably aren't fat because you have a healthy diet and exercise!
My mom's family grew up eating fried lard(!) as a regular food. Not a single one of them got overweight because they had regular exercise when they played with friends or did chores like tending the garden or worked the potato fields, and because they literally could not afford to eat enough lard to get fat
The reason that food insecure households are fat is not some magic bullet substance that we will be able to remove from our life, but because for a lot of Americans, you buy your groceries at dollar general or walmart and the frozen nuggets are cheaper than a pound of chicken thigh.
This has nothing to do with "Diet and exercise don't work" and everything to do with the fact that every single fat person KNOWS they are fat, already KNOWS diet and exercise are the solution, and has likely already tried diet and exercise in some way and couldn't manage it. People usually get fat because eating calorie dense foods feels good and people are desperate for anything to feel good because the average person has spent the last 6 decades being squeezed for every last drop of wealth by the ownership class, which it turns out is a very stressful experience.
Diet and exercise are extremely difficult to tack onto your existing life if you aren't already predisposed to it, and if you are already predisposed to it, you probably aren't fat because you have a healthy diet and exercise!
My mom's family grew up eating fried lard(!) as a regular food. Not a single one of them got overweight because they had regular exercise when they played with friends or did chores like tending the garden or worked the potato fields, and because they literally could not afford to eat enough lard to get fat
The reason that food insecure households are fat is not some magic bullet substance that we will be able to remove from our life, but because for a lot of Americans, you buy your groceries at dollar general or walmart and the frozen nuggets are cheaper than a pound of chicken thigh.