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The status quo (obesity) is extremely dangerous, so whatever potential danger you're thinking may exist would have to exceed that.

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Unless that's a false dichotomy. Obesity can be treated in less harmful ways. Companies can be regulated into only including a safe amount of sugar in drinks and foods that arent considered sweets

But when are those changes going to happen? Ozempic is available today.

> extremely dangerous

I wish I could just quip a "citation needed", but we're at a point where the visceral hate for fat includes researchers spitting out feel good papers going with the flow, as funding is basically guaranteed.

We don't have satanists, so this has become our day's moral panic IMHO:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6885862/

Are you suggesting obesity is not harmful?

Obesity is correlated to potentially harmful issues. That's a difference that matters when people reverse the goals and the means, reducing obesity often doesn't equate to solving the related issues.

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