Lao Tzu
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Someone argue with me, i want to hear some good counterarguments. Show me the way.
Alot of the arguments against fat people here involve things like laziness and increased medical costs. However these are not the case.
True fat people use up more healthcare costs, but they die earlier saving money on medicaid and social security. Who will eat up more medicaid and social security money, an obese person who dies at 68 or a thin, fit person who dies at 84? The answer seems obvious but i can't dig up stats to prove it right now. Besides, extending the lifespan of humans is the most expensive medical procedure we are working on right now. The longer people live the more money they will suck up. Why not protest outside a scientific lab working on a treatment for cardiovascular disease instead of yelling at fat people to lose weight? the end result is all the same, more money is spent because people live longer lives.
As far as laziness, the human body, as far as i know, isn't designed to lose weight and keep it off. Fat is emergency fuel and you will have to trick and manipulate your body until you die in order to maintain a less than 'normal' bodyweight (depending on how your biochemistry defines normal bodyweight & bodyfat percentage). Until people gain the self discipline and drive and/or pharmacology and surgery advance enough to make maintenance doable for most of the population the current methods will only offer temporary solutions and the majority of the population will still be obese. Obesity is becoming a major problem, there are now more overweight people on earth than starving people and it will only continute to get worse. And diet and exercise will help, but they are not cures.
Speaking of 'diet and exercise', these are not 'cures' for obesity, merely lifestyle changes that decrease the odds of contracting this disease (i dont like using the word disease to describe obesity, but it fits this metaphor). Take SARS for instance. When a quarantine was established nobody said 'ok, we cured SARS, lets go home'. All they did was enforce an unnatural lifestyle change that lessened the degree and intensity of that disease. They are sitll working on true cures for it but right now all we have are lifestyle changes. That is how it is with many diseases and illnesses, before a real cure can be found lifestyle changes are treated as the best way to slow the progression of the disease. Sanitation, Isolation and quarantines are good ways to slow the spread of the Black Plague, but only anti-biotics can cure it. Same with obesity. Diet and exercise will help alot of people become less fat, but it will not cure obesity, Just cut its rates and that is assuming people will even do it in the first place, Which they wont. Obesity will not truly be 'cured' until people can eat all they want, never exercise and not get fat. That won't happen until drugs that safely stop lipogenesis are created. Unlike AIDS, where all you have to do is wear a condom, the lifestyle changes for obesity involve going against millions of years of evolution. People aren't designed to get off on burning more calories than they use. We'd all be dead if we did that. Then again we aren't designed to get off on injecting ourselves with needles (which in the wild would probably cause sepsis), but we do that all the time. So maybe that point is moot.
And who said laziness is a bad thing? Laziness and a desire to get something for nothing is what fuels innovation and technology. If people weren't to lazy to walk we wouldn't have bikes. if people weren't too lazy to bike we wouldn't have cars. if people weren't too lazy to drive we wouldn't have planes.
Also there is alot of ragging on fat people for wanting a 'magic pill'. EF is the home of magic pills which help you lose weight (at least more weight than you'd lose with diet & exercise alone). T3, DNP, an endless assortment of alpha and beta agonists and antagonists, herbs, Type II diabetes drugs, etc. If a working weight loss drug is ever discovered people on EF will be using it before the ink dries on the scientific report. When the FDA is doing stage II trials on the drug people on EF will be buying it from industrial chemistry suppliers in Tiawan and capping it in their basements. People here take the same shortcuts everyone else does.
Alot of the arguments against fat people here involve things like laziness and increased medical costs. However these are not the case.
True fat people use up more healthcare costs, but they die earlier saving money on medicaid and social security. Who will eat up more medicaid and social security money, an obese person who dies at 68 or a thin, fit person who dies at 84? The answer seems obvious but i can't dig up stats to prove it right now. Besides, extending the lifespan of humans is the most expensive medical procedure we are working on right now. The longer people live the more money they will suck up. Why not protest outside a scientific lab working on a treatment for cardiovascular disease instead of yelling at fat people to lose weight? the end result is all the same, more money is spent because people live longer lives.
As far as laziness, the human body, as far as i know, isn't designed to lose weight and keep it off. Fat is emergency fuel and you will have to trick and manipulate your body until you die in order to maintain a less than 'normal' bodyweight (depending on how your biochemistry defines normal bodyweight & bodyfat percentage). Until people gain the self discipline and drive and/or pharmacology and surgery advance enough to make maintenance doable for most of the population the current methods will only offer temporary solutions and the majority of the population will still be obese. Obesity is becoming a major problem, there are now more overweight people on earth than starving people and it will only continute to get worse. And diet and exercise will help, but they are not cures.
Speaking of 'diet and exercise', these are not 'cures' for obesity, merely lifestyle changes that decrease the odds of contracting this disease (i dont like using the word disease to describe obesity, but it fits this metaphor). Take SARS for instance. When a quarantine was established nobody said 'ok, we cured SARS, lets go home'. All they did was enforce an unnatural lifestyle change that lessened the degree and intensity of that disease. They are sitll working on true cures for it but right now all we have are lifestyle changes. That is how it is with many diseases and illnesses, before a real cure can be found lifestyle changes are treated as the best way to slow the progression of the disease. Sanitation, Isolation and quarantines are good ways to slow the spread of the Black Plague, but only anti-biotics can cure it. Same with obesity. Diet and exercise will help alot of people become less fat, but it will not cure obesity, Just cut its rates and that is assuming people will even do it in the first place, Which they wont. Obesity will not truly be 'cured' until people can eat all they want, never exercise and not get fat. That won't happen until drugs that safely stop lipogenesis are created. Unlike AIDS, where all you have to do is wear a condom, the lifestyle changes for obesity involve going against millions of years of evolution. People aren't designed to get off on burning more calories than they use. We'd all be dead if we did that. Then again we aren't designed to get off on injecting ourselves with needles (which in the wild would probably cause sepsis), but we do that all the time. So maybe that point is moot.
And who said laziness is a bad thing? Laziness and a desire to get something for nothing is what fuels innovation and technology. If people weren't to lazy to walk we wouldn't have bikes. if people weren't too lazy to bike we wouldn't have cars. if people weren't too lazy to drive we wouldn't have planes.
Also there is alot of ragging on fat people for wanting a 'magic pill'. EF is the home of magic pills which help you lose weight (at least more weight than you'd lose with diet & exercise alone). T3, DNP, an endless assortment of alpha and beta agonists and antagonists, herbs, Type II diabetes drugs, etc. If a working weight loss drug is ever discovered people on EF will be using it before the ink dries on the scientific report. When the FDA is doing stage II trials on the drug people on EF will be buying it from industrial chemistry suppliers in Tiawan and capping it in their basements. People here take the same shortcuts everyone else does.