Plastic might be making us obese
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Plastic might be making us obese
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#3Seems impossible to avoid I guess?
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#4Well that plus the cheeseburger
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#5https://archive.ph/rmlCA
thank you
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#6A very long series of essays about this: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
The authors take the view that obesogens account for 100% or nearly 100% of the rise in obesity, which is definitely a controversial view. However, they do an awesome job giving an overview of the arguments for obesogens.
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#7Well that plus the cheeseburger
People ate fast food and drove everywhere in 80s/90s what changed that it's worse now?
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#8I've recently started taking 'liraglutide', which is an appetite suppressant.
I haven't been taking it that long, but so far it's amazing -- I eat a balanced meal with an approriate amount of calories in it, and then I am full, and don't want to eat any more. Sometimes I snack and eat a biscuit, but then I don't feel any need to eat a second biscuit.
I'm not saying this is a long-term solution for me, or people in general, but what it has shown me is some people (me included) have managed to mess up their digestive systems badly enough it is incredibly hard to eat healthily -- I previously lost 8 stone (50 kg), but I was hungry every minute of every day, no matter what I tried. Once I had a bad patch I ended up putting all the weight back on.
Re: Plastic might be making us obese
#9Well that plus the cheeseburger
Just saying "cheeseburgers" or "calories in, calories out" fails to explain why people eat more calories now than they did before. There is a vague, and I think very unhelpful, sense in society today that this is some sort of mass moral failing. In reality there are a few factors that could, alone or in combination, explain this change in average behavior. The most convincing to me: chemicals could be messing with our endocrine systems and making us hungrier or food scientists could be designing more appealing food that just overloads our desires to eat.
Re: Plastic might be making us obese
#10Well that plus the cheeseburger
Would it change your perception if you look at overeating as a symptom rather than a cause?
A common enough symptom for untreated diabetes is eccessive thirst. Why should some ailments not cause lack of satiety or edcessive hunger.
Or even metabolic issues. Complex ones.
Imagine that the basis for the obesity pandemic may in fact lie in other, lack of proper digestive bacteria and yeast for example. I feel that pointing at obesity as just lazyness is just not constructive. I am not obese and have never suffered from it so this is not from a point of self defense. Just a thought.