As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet' advice

Re:As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet... by wrigglingworm on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:14PM (#39935271)

If you want to lose weight then consume less calories than your body burns. It really is that simple. Yeah, you probably won't be comfortable, but that's the trick to losing weight. You could do it eating nothing but Twinkies, you won't be healthy, but your weight will drop.

Surprised to see that this article mentioned "portion" or "serving" a total of zero times. That's the trick with cereal. Taking cocoa puffs as an example, 50g of them is 200 calories. 50g is probably 4 spoonful's (no source just my opinion).. very little, if you just pour an amount that looks good to you into your bowl, yeah it's going to easily add up to an 800 calorie meal when you add milk.

I would agree that it's deceptive, but you can't blame them for making you fat. All the information you need is right there on the label. This is just for managing weight, getting proper micro and macro nutrients takes a little more research.

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Re:As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet... by toomuchtodo on Thursday April 04, 2024 @05:27PM (#39935988)

GLP-1 agonists (Wegovy, Ozempic, semaglutide), help people who have a brain chemistry preventing calorie reduction success naturally (willpower or whatever you want to call it).

The gene therapy trials should be done soon. At that point, the flywheel comes up to speed and starts enabling susceptible populations with the genetic bug to fix it, in order to have agency against a system designed to shovel them garbage for profit. Obesity at this scale is a system failure, so you have to fix the system (and it’s clearly not going to be done at the regulatory or corp level).

(You can absolutely blame them for making people fat; some people cannot control it, and you cannot blame someone for their brain chemistry)

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Re:As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet... by snvzz on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:37AM (#39940474)

There's two problems: Lack of knowledge, and lack of discipline.

I am not comfortable with the idea of mass-medicating to try to solve these societal issues through a brain chemistry strategy.

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Re:As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet... by toomuchtodo on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:30AM (#39940769)

The feelings don’t matter; you must empower the human to achieve their desired outcome. Maybe that’s drugs. Maybe that’s lifestyle. Maybe that’s gene therapy or other bioengineering. It is their choice, not ours. The societal problems are because of exploitation of the human, defend the human accordingly.

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