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Industry can also steer demand via advertising.
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Most health insurance doesn't cover weight loss treatment without a condition like T2D, heart issues, etc. If you're fat enough that it's damaging your health you're extremely unlikely to be able to lose it without significant support through medicine, nutritionists, etc.
Losing weight doesn't cost money.
There are a variety of reasons people get fat, and a variety of reasons people stay fat. Treating the specific reasons for the specific people is a lot safer, and easier, than just having people eat less.
For me, I'm a stress eater. I need more money, and better credentials, and then I can get career tracked in a way that will reduce my stress enough to eat better.
Exercise does help, and I should be doing more. I exercise best (most consistently) with machines, but don't have the cash flow for a gym membership anymore. I also exercised great with rollerblading, but the serious accidents I had doing that make it a bad idea without an indoor rink, and the nearest indoor rink is both expensive and a ways away. I have to drive to work, so I try parking about a 10 minute walk away and walking uphill. It's something, at least.
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> This is as much a cultural problem as a financial one. I live in one of these Diabetes Belt counties. I'd like to add another aspect to the "cultural problem", which is that the median person here eats absolutely horrendously and doesn't exercise at all. > we'd rather give you bad food I'd like to believe that people have the agency of choosing what they eat.
Broccoli, right now after reading this, I'm choosing broccoli.
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If you're that fat you're statistically unlikely to lose weight without medical intervention of some sort, even something as basic as talking to a fucking nutritionist about portion sizes.
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Losing weight doesn't cost money.
If you're that fat you're statistically unlikely to lose weight without medical intervention of some sort, even something as basic as talking to a fucking nutritionist about portion sizes.
No happy ending. One of the brothers died just before I moved away, of an obesity and diabetes related illness.
Interesting tale. Mostly a question of junk food and portion sizes.
Related: ProPublica investigation on doctors performing unnecessary amputations on poor black diabetes patients, because they don't pay enough attention to the patients and also get paid more to amputate. https://features.propublica.org/diabetes-amputations/black-a... Another link if you are skeptical there is a racial issue: page 12 of https://data.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/reports/Diabetes_r... . Among Medicare…
This is as much a cultural problem as a financial one. Somehow we've convinced ourselves that in spite of the fact that we can afford to provide everyone with good food and access to medical care, that we'd rather give you bad food which causes health care issues and then treat those because it contributes to GDP.
> This is as much a cultural problem as a financial one. I live in one of these Diabetes Belt counties. I'd like to add another aspect to the "cultural problem", which is that the median person here eats absolutely horrendously and doesn't exercise at all. > we'd rather give you bad food I'd like to believe that people have the agency of choosing what they eat.
Or are they eating shit, because eating shit is the path of least resistance, and median person travels down the path of least resistance, and if you set up your society such that the path of least resistance results in horrible outcomes, you're going to get horrible outcomes?
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Safety belts and airbags are mediocre solutions, too, but that doesn’t imply you shouldn’t have them, even if you are a very careful driver. Also, like with drivers and car accidents, there are people who happen to get type 2 diabetes even though they do what they can to avoid it.