What Happens When Ozempic Takes over Your Town

Re:What Happens When Ozempic Takes over Your Town by samdunham on Friday August 09, 2024 @11:22AM (#41202739)

But it IS as simple as eat less and exercise. And no, not everyone would do it. Everyone isn't doing it. Because people are lazy, want instant gratification, and consequence-free eating habits. If 99.9999% of the people taking these drugs were to cut their caloric intake to something reasonable (1500-2000 calories per day) and exercise for half an hour to an hour a day, every single one of them would lose weight. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to.

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Re:What Happens When Ozempic Takes over Your Town by choilive on Friday August 09, 2024 @11:39AM (#41202902)

And whats the problem with that? Our entire world is built upon conveniences. We don't grow or hunt our own food, or travel cross country with our own two feet, or countless other things.

Its not that I can't do those things. I don't want to. I rather spend my time, physical and mental energy on the things that are more important to me. Does that make me lazy?

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Re:What Happens When Ozempic Takes over Your Town by Etheryte on Friday August 09, 2024 @11:37AM (#41202887)

This is like saying not being poor is as simple as earn more and spend less. It's simple as. It's not that people can't do this, it's that they don't want to. Hopefully you can see how absurd this framing is.

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Re:What Happens When Ozempic Takes over Your Town by dbcucismavahdb on Friday August 09, 2024 @02:41PM (#41204307)

It is very simple when you realize both these problems are very fixable with elites that care about their people and don’t seem them as things to extract resources from.

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Re:What Happens When Ozempic Takes over Your Town by consteval on Friday August 09, 2024 @03:49PM (#41204830)

> Because people are lazy, want instant gratification, and consequence-free eating habits.

At what point does it stop being an individual problem, and a human problem?

This is a global crisis. Can you really not think that maybe, maybe, the human brain and body is not built for our current world?

At what point do we admit "do nothing" isn't a viable solution? At what point do we look around and see HALF of people struggling with obesity and say "okay... something is wrong here".

I'm sorry, what you're saying is directly at odds with reality and I think you're only saying it because you got lucky. You don't have food addiction so it isn't real.

But evidently it is. To me it's obvious. When I look around I don't see lazy people, I see an epidemic of addiction. This feels, to me, identical to smoking. Identical.

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