We're going to need to medicate our way of the problem while waiting for a public healthy policy that actually works.
It's not like we didn't try, but what we tried didn't work and never really iterated toward something that works.
It's not like we didn't try, but what we tried didn't work and never really iterated toward something that works.
"It's not that I don't want to stop smoking, but the cigarette companies put chemicals in that keep me addicted"
"I live in an environment that pushes me to smoke"
"I wish the policymakers would stop me from smoking"
"I smoke because my genes tell me so"
We should be working to pragmatically solve problems, not playing unhelpful blame game. Doctors don't go around trying to make sure that their patients are first virtuous in their self care. They get on with the business of medicine and do their best.
We now have a powerful drug that help with obesity. Let's make use of that when nothing else accomplish the job as we work on other alternatives such as better regulations, psychological health, etc.
> "I live in an environment that pushes me to smoke"
But those two things are true. The nicotine is addictive and being surrounded by other smokers, smoking materials, smoking in films and on television, all compounded to make smoking more attractive. Plenty of smokers offered me cigarettes when i was in my teens.
This is modern voodoo.
I’ve eaten terrifically and exercised regularly. I’ve also been a slob and ordered Uber Eats from bed for a week. I don’t gain much weight either way. When I have, I can lose it within a week. (My figure changes. But not enough that clothes don’t fit.)
This isn’t because I follow some magic (ex post facto obvious in some way) diet. It’s my biology. Other people have different biologies that will save calories irrespective of the source and use; their basal metabolism adjusts to ensure they’re burning less than they eat, all the way to starvation.
In a calorie-deficit environment, or one stricken by plague that disease out digestion while the immune system goes full blast, I die first. In a calorie-rich and vaccinated world, they do. (Even then, mortality is higher amid low BMIs than moderate ones, largely due to disease outcomes.)
I did indeed lose the belly fat I wanted to shed.
I'm sure it wasn't the healthiest thing I ever did, but from the perspective of fat loss it worked AOK
There is zero scientific evidence about this.