The reductions in heart disease and cancer are primarily from dramatic reduction in smoking rate plus some improvements in (costly) therapies to extend life duration but at a great reduction in quality.
Obesity shows no sign of abatement. The fix is in, the fat is going on.
Here’s a thought…if you are American fatty, stop eating so much, put your phone down, go outside and start jogging. I guarantee you will lose weight.
No one is forcing you to eat their junk food. Self control is gone and victim hood is accepted.
I do believe however that many obese have a serious addiction to food. That’s why 25% of people who have gastric bypass begin abusing alcohol. The problem is fatsos have no self awareness of their food intake because everyone else fat and overeating too.
Chen, MD wrote:
Here’s a thought…if you are American fatty, stop eating so much, put your phone down, go outside and start jogging. I guarantee you will lose weight.
No one is forcing you to eat their junk food. Self control is gone and victim hood is accepted.
I do believe however that many obese have a serious addiction to food. That’s why 25% of people who have gastric bypass begin abusing alcohol. The problem is fatsos have no self awareness of their food intake because everyone else fat and overeating too.
Weaponized (refined carbs + seed oils) junk food is every bit as addictive as drugs or alcohol. I know many ex-smokers or alcoholics who are helpless in the sway of junk food.
It is comparable to introducing our children at age one (or even younger with "juices" or formula) to drugs and alcohol and wondering why they are so screwed up.
Yet people blame " lack of willpower" or "weakness" for not beating an addiction started almost at or even before birth (epigenetics) for an insidious poisonous diet that almost everyone around them is scarfing as well as relentless advertising and promotion, even as "healthy" snack bars and beverages.
dan carlin hardcore history man wrote:
We already have healthy food to eat. People choose not to eat it and eat donuts and pizza instead.
Free to choose
Not free to choose consequences of choice.
I feel like people use to be taught this concept when they were kids.
It doesn't help that "healthy food" costs nearly twice as much as the donuts and pizza, and sometimes more. I've worked at a health food restaurant that touted its organic ingredients and such; a smoothie with 1.5 bananas and peanutbutter would set you back $10, and the smallest muffin we had was $4.25. Don't get me started on the salads that charged $1.25 per 2oz of extra ingredients and $1 for 1oz of dressing off the base price of 13$-17$
I believe that the biggest cause of premature death in the USA is direct abortion, of which about 700,000/year are committed.
Manalive wrote:
X-Runner wrote:
The last thing we need is people living longer.
Social Security is already strained as it is.
Do you want payroll taxes to cover everyone for another 5-10 years?
So your solution is to have people die prematurely rather than, say, working longer. Brilliant.
Your solution is for them to work into their 80s?
If people won’t take care of themselves, let them die early.
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