| ▲ | crooked-v 13 hours ago |
| Plenty of people have lifelong drug use of, say, caffeine, or aspirin as a blood thinner, or various antihistamines. Why is this somehow worse? Particularly keeping in mind that it's very easy to make, so once the patents expire, it's going to be dirt cheap as generics everywhere. |
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| ▲ | joshuamcginnis 13 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I'm just sharing my personal preference and not trying to tell people how to live their lives. I don't like personally like the idea that I'll only be healthy if I take this drug for the rest of my life when I could (again - speaking for me), be more disciplined about the food I put into my body. |
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| ▲ | thaw13579 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | People have a variety of intensities of cravings and capacities for self-regulation (with a magnitude that is largely out of their control). Discipline only works for people where the capacity for self-regulation outweighs the intensity of cravings. These cravings are huge though because our food system is engineered to be both extremely calorie rich and appealing. It's hard to blame people when they're surrounded by fast food restaurants on every corner that has been engineering to target what's called the "bliss point" when experiencing their food. Looking at this a different way, maybe the discipline / self-regulation needs to be applied at the societal (not individual) level, to improve the environment in which we all live? | |
| ▲ | m1keil 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why this has to be all or nothing? You can use the drug to loose weight while trying to understand the underlying problem. | |
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| ▲ | kolinko 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | “be more disciplined” - did you read any studies about the sources of obesity? Or do you struggle with weight since childhood yourself? | | |
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