Comment on where did we go wrong
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 months ago
So imagine this but with a 40% obesity rate.
Obesity in the 50’s was more like 10-15%, today it’s closer to 35%, but 40 is close enough.
Interestingly, the spike started in the mid-1980’s, timed too closely to the low-fat craze to not make me suspicious, especially since that adds up metabolically.
Yeah, many products had (and still have) reduced fat but added sugar. Sugar belongs in desserts in my opinion. Eating fat doesn’t make you fat.
Pretty sure fat digests pretty easily for humans, while we are omnivores we lean more towards the carnivore side of things. Remember our big evolutionary advantage is our ability to throw things good and just keep walking, persistence hunting was our big fuck you advantage.
Another advantage that we developed later on is our ability to seamlessly shift from small to big team organizations, sometimes working without any apparent hierarchy. Gobleki Tepe is one of the prime examples of prehistoric cities
Too bad the world as a whole kinda stuck with super rigid top down hierarchies for the past 500 years
Eating sugar doesn’t either unless you’re at a calorie surplus but yeah sugar does mess with you hormonally in a way that you’re more likely to put yourself at a calorie surplus vs fats.
tal@lemmy.today 4 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00404-9
The 1950s can still happen!
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Weight loss drugs don’t immunise you against food though.
And usually the people who are on drugs for weight loss a rent exactly close to the figure represented.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The new ones like ozempic literally kill your cravings and desire for snacking, so in a way they do.
You’d be surprised at the figures of some of the people I see at the doctor’s for weight loss drugs.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In a way, they attempt to moderate the hormones that usually are the cause behind snacking. But it won’t eliminate habit.
I don’t think I would, but if some anorexic person gets weight loss drugs instead of a referral to a psychiatrist, somethings gone wrong.