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Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by raldi on Sunday July 13, 2025 @08:57PM (#44555329)
Then wouldn’t the government want to subsidize it?
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by gscott on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:02AM (#44556344)
Elon Musk suggested it. The fast food Industry has ppl addicted along with the lack of health education in schools.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by eru on Monday July 14, 2025 @05:33AM (#44558058)
> [...] along with the lack of health education in schools.

I don't think that's too much of a factor?

I mean, check how much (or rather how little) people learn of the stuff that _is_ covered in school. Tweaking the curriculum would just mean that instead of not paying attention in algebra, students would not pay attention in 'health education class'.

Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by Jalad on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:49AM (#44560931)
In my school there was a strong emphasis on what a healthy diet is baked into the curriculum. Along with my family's relatively healthy cooking, that set me up for cooking and eating well on my own through college and life after that. I would edge away from takes related to "it just wouldn't work"

I mean the education system is its own mess for other reasons, but it's not a complete failure

Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by eru on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:44AM (#44568890)
Maybe, though in your case, your family's cooking (and other background) probably already determined your fate.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:20AM (#44561239)
The effectiveness of "health education" is somewhere between extraordinarily modest and nonexistent. It's not that people don't know what's healthy, it's that when it comes time to resist compulsion that is difficult, uncomfortable, and undesirable.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by dfxm12 on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:42AM (#44560157)
A government for and by the people would, yes. This doesn't describe the US government though.
Re:GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance by TimedToasts on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @11:31AM (#44572220)
We do not want tens of millions of people excreting GLP via waste products into our environment. Hormones and others are already effing things up.