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Since they refuse to stop eating so much
Put the ozempic in the water
On one hand, it literally is as easy as "eat less". On the other, this is spoken like someone who's never struggled with anything like this, and you sound like a real ass. Bc you're right, it is as easy as "eat less", but if that were easy, wouldn't everyone be a healthy weight, then? Obesity wouldn't even be a concept, if eating less was an easy thing to do.
"easy" is definitely not the word to use, since it's clearly not easy. I think "Simple" is the better way to put it. Things can be simple, and yet extremely difficult.
Actually, eating less won't work for a lot of people and you could easily end up doing more harm to your health than the obesity is doing if you push it far enough
What you need to do is eat healthy and get regular physical activity to coax your body into metabolizing things like it should. Of course, healthy food and the space to exercise both cost money, so yeah - poverty is to social problems what boiling water is to generating energy.
Eating less will absolutely work for 100% of people. That's just physics. The problem is adjusting timeframe expectations. If it took a lifetime to gain the weight, you're not going to get rid of it with a couple months of dieting. Trying to go too fast is what causes the problem. It's like never working out a day in your life, then trying to bench 500 lbs as your first ever lift; you're going to hurt yourself.
"You will get down to your desired weight by your 92nd birthday" sounds like something that wouldn't work for a lot of people to me
Good thing nobody said that then.
You can get fat eating healthy food too. It's calories in and calories out. If you eat less than you consume you will lose weight. Eating less works for 100% of people.
Hence why I said "eat healthy" not "eat healthy food"
Hence why I said "and get regular physical activity" to raise the second part of that equation
Eating "less" could still be more than you're consuming if you don't have any physical activity, so, no, just eating less will not work for 100% of people
Go to Europe. Any large city. You will not see an obese person. The whole point of this article is that obesity is a US culture problem, and it's regional. Amazing difference across the US/Canada border. Obesity rates in Japan are very low, but in Japanese-Americans it gets 4X higher. Americans eat bad food, and they eat too much of it, and they don't do anything physical.
There was a YT documentary about the difference between Japan and the US. Basically it boiled down to kids in Japan actually being taught how to deal with food in a healthy manner.
But Michelle Obama tried something similar in the US and people lost their fucking MINDS. Healthy food is communism!
Eat less, do more.
Be careful what you say, that could seriously harm junk food profits, you don't want to get the McDonald mafia after you.
This might be the least informed comment I have ever seen online.
Obesity in the US has far more to do with food quality and food availability than quantity consumed.
The one chemical Alex Jones doesn't object to the government putting in the water. I'm sure he already puts it in his
Might as well replace the fluoride. We're apparently against that again.