Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them?
by numbsafari on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:23AM
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"how do we go about making cheap, convenient, healthy food on such a scale?"
We need people to stop worrying about "casual gaming at scale" and start worrying about "living a good life at scale".
It's just that, there's not usually as much profit in the solutions that actually work or matter.
Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them?
by maccard on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:21AM
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> We need people to stop worrying about "casual gaming at scale" and start worrying about "living a good life at scale".
I'm a healthy male in my 20's, I eat well and exercise regularly. I'd be PISSED if everyone stopped working on games and tried to solve all the eating problems of my friends because they're too lazy to do it themselves, instead of catering to what people who already try to live healthily want to do.
Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them?
by utnick on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:53AM
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Don't we already have cheap convenient healthy food?
I mostly eat tacos for dinner, beans, occasionaly rice, random vegetables, a little bit of hot sauce, sometimes eggs.
Its cheaper than mcdonalds and takes about 5 minutes to make.
The number of issues that would need addressing to make it possible for everyone to eat a healthy diet (hell how do we go about making cheap, convenient, healthy food on such a scale?) vastly exceeds the number involved in coming up with post-hoc remedies.
More relevant questions are surely those which enable us to do something about the problem in the foreseeable future (such as diet pills) rather than pondering about how things could be better if we were able to solve dozens of complex issues over an unrealistically short timespan?