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Last time I checked the obesity rate in the US was like 36%. Now it's 42%. Some sources say 40%. That's just the obesity rate too, if you include overweight it's over 70%. What the hell is wrong with people? Why is this not being addressed, instead of the whole world's panicking over a stupid virus? This should be top priority for any politician who wants to prevent people from dying prematurely. Sugar taxes and food laws are just as controversial as lockdowns and mask mandates, if government gets a say in everyone's health I want this dealt with. It's a drain on society and government insurance shouldn't allow them to live past what they should or help them reproduce. That's a waste of hospital resources we're supposedly so short on. I mean if you're dumb enough to eat yourself to death I don't really care if you win a Darwin award, that's on you. But I don't want to live in a society full of fat people either, it's obnoxious and depressing. I knew obesity rates weren't likely to improve but I'm so mad to see how much it went up. I want friends who aren't fats, drug addicts or smokers. I know this isn't addicthate but they're as bad as fats and half the thin people I talk to end up being addicts. I won't allow those idiots near my family either. My pool of potential friends is shrinking more and more every year, faster than I realized. I don't want to be around fat, degenerate morons at all but it's starting to be impossible to avoid them. I don't want to be a hermit either, I can't win here. This sucks. :/

Last time I checked the obesity rate in the US was like 36%. Now it's 42%. Some sources say 40%. That's just the obesity rate too, if you include overweight it's over 70%. What the hell is wrong with people? Why is this not being addressed, instead of the whole world's panicking over a stupid virus? This should be top priority for any politician who wants to prevent people from dying prematurely. Sugar taxes and food laws are just as controversial as lockdowns and mask mandates, if government gets a say in everyone's health I want this dealt with. It's a drain on society and government insurance shouldn't allow them to live past what they should or help them reproduce. That's a waste of hospital resources we're supposedly so short on. I mean if you're dumb enough to eat yourself to death I don't really care if you win a Darwin award, that's on you. But I don't want to live in a society full of fat people either, it's obnoxious and depressing. I knew obesity rates weren't likely to improve but I'm so mad to see how much it went up. I want friends who aren't fats, drug addicts or smokers. I know this isn't addicthate but they're as bad as fats and half the thin people I talk to end up being addicts. I won't allow those idiots near my family either. My pool of potential friends is shrinking more and more every year, faster than I realized. I don't want to be around fat, degenerate morons at all but it's starting to be impossible to avoid them. I don't want to be a hermit either, I can't win here. This sucks. :/

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[–] • 2 pts

food science is fucked, people dont know whats healthy and its a hard to find out with out extensive research, combined with the loss of cooking skills, most people cant cook so they buy "healthy" food from a shop that is just not healthy, its also far cheaper to buy unhealthy food than it is to buy healthy food if you dont know how to cook

this is our advantage though and we can show them how the grass is greener on the other side simply by eating well, avoiding soy, and working out

[–] • 2 pts

Eat less food than you burn off = you lose weight, even if said food is extremely lacking in nutritional value

Eat more food than you burn off = you gain weight

It's really that fucking simple. People act as if it's a stupidly complicated thing, it's not.

Then they start bitching about their lack of self control when it comes to cutting down on food - its an impulse control issue which is the realm of being a toddler, not a fucking adult. Grow the fuck up, I say, in these cases.

[–] • -1 pt

because that a reductionist take on it, its right but its far more complicated than that, you just took the 5 min tldr version of nutrition and stopped learning more

nothing is as simple as you make this out to be and acting like it is just causes problems

shit is complicated, you might need to make little easy to remember catching lines to understand the world but dont be fooled in to think thats how the world actually works, just like a recipe, anyone can follow a recipe, an intelligent person understands the variation in the ingredients means the recipe may needs adjusting based on stuff like the starchiness of the potato or the heat of a chilli

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

How about they try the simple stuff first? How about they do try to just, I don’t know, eat a little less first? Try it out. Maybe drop from 300 pounds to 250 pounds and then decide if they want to learn more to get into even better shape? You’re talking about nuance when we’re dealing with people who just don’t stop stuffing their face all day.

Try that first.

Just put down the Doritos and the Oreos. Then we will worry about macros and discuss how overrated cardio is. And a whole host of other things. Let’s trim your grocery bill from $250 a week to $150 a week because you’re picking up salmon and lean chicken instead of Pringles and grabbing Arby’s on the way home.

[–] • 1 pt

Thing is, the sheeple don't need the complicated version and by giving them a more complicated version they just switch off and say "It's all too hard!" and then blame their obesity on anything but their lack of impulse control.