Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by ben_w on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:41AM (#41856225)

When I was at university, I made a game of spending as little as possible on food. 50p/day. Didn't realise until someone here refused to believe me, that my diet then was about 1100 kcal/day during term time. Didn't feel bad at all.

A few years after graduation, for unrelated reasons, I was on antidepressants. I massively over-ate, became obese, gained stretch marks that will likely remain for life.

There was no voice in my head telling me I was even over-eating, there was no awareness of what I was doing to myself even when I felt the weird tingle in my belly that in retrospect was the tearing flesh that has the outward sign of a stretch mark — I ate without thought.

There is no "natural, effective" solution, because our natural instincts are at odds with our unnatural world.

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by Elinvynia on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:09AM (#41856720)

There really is no natural solution if you are taking medication that increases your weight. Kinda disproving your own example there.

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by ben_w on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:48AM (#41856955)

Is this "nature" in the room with us right now?

Seriously — the US and Europe have not been in a remotely "natural" condition since over a century before I was born. Even the air we breathe is significantly different from its natural condition.

Why do you think I gave that example?

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by sph on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:11AM (#41856380)

So the solution is to take a hormone so we can still eat all the junk food we massively produce?

Ozempic is exactly the type of drug Unilevel/Nestlé would create if they were tasked with reducing obesity. I wonder if they'll include a free 7 day dose of it with Mars bars.

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by ben_w on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:43AM (#41856929)

It reduces food intake by lowering appetite.

That's pretty much the exact opposite of what you seem to think it does, and is exactly the kind of thing that will hurt Nestlé's junk food line. (Though probably not their bottled tap water line).

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