With diet, exercise and discipline, most obesity problems of all people would be cured. but it is more comfortable to do nothing and blame genetics

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    6 months ago

    Modern global society, not just any specific country, is suffering from epidemic levels of metabolic dysfunction. Obesity is only one symptom of metabolic syndrome. There are many people who are also metabolically unhealthy, and thin. The “skinny fats” you may have heard of.

    Obesity, high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems, PCOS, diabetes, dementia… all stem from the same root. The metabolic system is not functioning properly. Due to an hormonal imbalance that is recent in human history.

    Insulin levels have been higher in people for the last hundred years due to a change in diets. Sugar, processed foods, seed oils. These are the modern changes in diet, and the modern problems are a function of these. People are addicted to sugar, or carbohydrates, and they eat processed food which is designed to be addictive.

    Highly recommend the book “why we get sick”. https://goodreads.com/book/show/49207255-why-we-get-sick

    Blaming people as weak willed, when we’re facing a new, and very stark change in diet, and obesity… It’s just a cop out. People did not change in the last 100 years, The foods people eat changed in the last hundred years.

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      6 months ago

      Just a cavit you might want to clarify type 2 diabetes just saying diabetes will piss off quite a few type 1 diabetics who suffer through no fault of their own only shitty genetics.