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Mess with the fundamental hormonal balance honed over the eons of hunger and survival? What could go wrong?

This sounds like naturalistic fallacy, and the same argument could be applied to suggest all medication is bad. Also, our ancestors evolved to deal with food scarcity. It is precisely our adaptation for scarcity that predisposes modern humans for obesity.

There are legitimate criticisms to be made of GLP agonists, but this isn't one of them.

If you mean by mass producing energy dense processed foods that are much cheaper than meat and fruit, then yes I agree

But should we praise this as the fix?

How about instead we fix the problem by making healthy foods and active lifestyles cheaper and more prevalent?

Yes. We should.

> How about instead we fix the problem by making healthy foods and active lifestyles cheaper and more prevalent?

Good luck with that.

Unhealthy habits and diets are popular (and delicious), and a lot of people resented even the minimal effort required to wear a mask during a pandemic of an airborne disease.

sure, but how realistic is that, really?

That's an unrealistic fix. Even if Doritos, Big Macs, and french fries were expensive, most people would still eat them for their hyperpalatability.

The only "fix" is to ban these foods, perform public executions of food company executives, institute mandatory kcal rationing, and bring back relentless fat shaming and discrimination.

Personally, I prefer not living in a totalitarian dictatorship, so GLP-1 agonists seem like a slightly more humane option to me.

Presumably the opposite of the thing that goes wrong when you mess with the same by systematically engineering a hyperstimulus to exploit it for money.

Implying getting clinically obese hasn’t already messed with the hormonal balance of hunger and survival?

Well the argument is that modern society and food is very different from what our bodies evolved for, so the messing has already happened.

Same could be said for the prevalence of processed food.

Modern problems require modern solutions.

I think medical science is awesome.

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