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… and the mechanism by which GLP-1s cause weight loss is, more or less, by making fasting really easy.

Hacker News has extreme orthorexia and endorses all sorts of quackery.

That's such a lazy and unimaginative take that basically skips 99.999% of human history during which sugar wasn't a problem at all.

The baseline lifestyle of 99.999% of human history would, by modern classifications, be considered intermittent fasting.

That was the part of history when humans didn’t have much access to cheap sugar.

You’re the lazy one.

Refined sugar hasn't been a problem for 99.999% of human history because it hasn't existed for 99.999% of human history.