dudeThe Risk Too Many People Are Taking With Ozempic
AlkThis article boils down to “be careful, you might get a tummy ache” and ignores the fact that glp1 is saving millions of lives from heart disease, stroke, and other obesity-related issues.
Did you read the article? It is warning about over-prescribing to people who are not at risk of heart disease, stroke, and other obesity-related issues.
I think it’s well understood that people who produce glp1 correctly can still be obese and need weight loss and these drugs help with that. That’s the whole point of the drug. To provide more glp1 than is needed to lose weight easily.
these drugs help with that
or they cause gastrointestinal conditions in these people, resulting in the weight loss (and malnutrition) that is a symptom of the new condition rather than the drug itself.
Dieting is literally effective 100% of the time, thanks to Newton and his second law and all that.
Sticking to it is another thing entirely - but let’s not pretend words don’t have meaning anymore
Studies show dieting doesn’t work for most of the population. Studies have shown this for the last 60 years. Sure, it works in a vacuum, but that’s not where real people live.
Its because people lie about their diet homie willingly or out of ignorance because they misjudge portion sizes etc,
And what do you suppose we do about that? It has become a global epidemic. Just “get good” and start eating healthy? Clearly that does actually work, and yet obesity is more of a problem now than it has ever been.
Lol losing weight has nothing to do with “eating healthy” im noticing a trend here.
absGeekNZlosing weight has nothing to do with “eating healthy”
I’m not sure what you are getting at with this statement.
How else does one lose weight then?
I think they are trying to say that you can technically lose weight without changing how you eat by spending more calories. Which… is technically true. But obviously doesn’t relate to the point I was making, and I feel like they’re purposefully avoiding talking about the fact that the biological mechanics of how one loses weight have nothing to do with the general population’s inability to lose weight with willpower alone.
They’re trying to spring some sort of “gotcha” on the fact that I didn’t over-explain my terminology in a throwaway example, ignoring the rest of my comment and the meaning behind it.
Obviously it does. “Eating healthy” in this case means eating fewer calories than you burn. But don’t just pick at one small part of one example and not acknowledge the rest of my comment. What do you suppose we do about the obesity epidemic? How do we save as many lives as possible? Many things have been tried, and many have failed. Including telling people to lose weight and how to do it themselves.