Yeah, I have no problem with weight loss drugs either. Main thing is as far as I can tell, if you stop using the drugs, the rates of weight regain seem pretty high. This means you likely either have to stay on the drugs for life, which still might be preferable to lifelong obesity, or lifestyle changes have to be good enough to maintain the lost weight.CheekiBreekiFitness wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 7:07 amMy opinion is that, because of the modern food environment, there is a fraction of people who will not be able to lose weight through dieting and exercising. For this fraction of people, if their weight is a long term health risk, I feel that them being able to access a weight loss drug is a good thing. Now I'm not sure about the long term side effects of those drugs, but if they are not as bad as the long term side effects of being severely obese (which are pretty bad and very well documented).alek wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:50 pm Firefox suggested I read this article. Seemed appropriate to go here.
https://www.romper.com/life/what-to-kno ... wtab-en-us
Now you could argue that this is solving the wrong problem, and the actual problem would be to pass actual legislation to impose change in the food environment, but that's probably never going to ever happen, at least as long as politicians are owned by corporate interests.
The thing I don't like about some folks in the weight loss field is it seems they started to push this idea that obesity is almost entirely outside of an individual's control. I understand the reasons why they might suggest it, i.e. people naturally have different appetites, satiety levels, cravings, etc, but to me this is more a difficulty not a choice issue. Completely agree for a lot of obese people weight loss is a very steep hill to climb. But I wouldn't suggest it's outside of their control. It's like this weird liberating, yet hopeless kind of rhetoric, in my opinion.
In terms of food environment, what would this look like? Pretty much only thing I could really think of is higher taxes on "weight promoting" food like the ultra processed/palatable stuff, and subsidies on whole food. Even that has a lot of issues though