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Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells

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234 points Eumenes | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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talkingtab ◴[21 Nov 24 01:21 UTC] No.42200046[source]▶
It concerns me how discussions, such as this one go on HN. This is an important topic. With the epidemic of obesity we now find a drug that appeals to a large number of people. This is an important topic as well.

What is the current comment receiving most of the comment?

"That's the sort of headlines that smells like bullshit to me"

That's the sort of comment that smells like bullshit to me. What kind of place is this?

Many times I find the posts on HN interesting, but increasingly these kind of comments make me wonder about Y Combinator. Is this really the best they can do?

And for us readers who are supposed to be so called hackers, is this the best we can do?

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1. burningChrome ◴[21 Nov 24 02:35 UTC] No.42200512[source]▶
The cure for obesity isn't a pill.

Remember in the 80's and 90's when exercising and being healthy was considered a cool thing? Remember there was a gym on every corner and people were all about looking good and being healthy, eating healthy and living longer?

Then somewhere. . .

- We started normalizing obesity.

- We started this whole "body positivity" trend that celebrating morbidly obese people like Lizzo as positive role models was a good thing?

- We started introducing fat mannequin models in retail stores because being obese shouldn't have a stigma?

Obesity is a problem because we, as a culture have completely normalized obesity. Instead of promoting healthy diets and exercises and saying being obese has consequences like shortening your life and will make you susceptible to various diseases like diabetes and heart disease? All we've done is told people its ok to be obese and eat sugary drinks and over processed foods, because you can just have surgery and that will fix it. Or you can take a pill and that will fix it.

IT WON'T.

IT NEVER WILL.

We've gone down a road that is staggeringly dangerous because we've accepted being morbidly obese as something that's completely normal.

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2. PaulHoule ◴[21 Nov 24 02:43 UTC] No.42200566[source]▶
No, some chemical or chemicals got added to the environment around 1980.

All I can say is try losing 20 pounds and keeping it off for two years and how easy it is. Fat shaming might make a difference but I suspect it would be like knocking off 5 lbs from the average where you really need to knock off 50 lbs.

You only started seeing Victoria's Secret getting fat models in the last few years, the obesity epidemic on the other hand started in the Regan years. Maybe it's like taking your belt off when you get heartburn (though I know if I go that route pretty soon I'm going to need suspenders) Try

https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312011

for a theory that may be wrong but fits the chronology.

3. kiba ◴[21 Nov 24 03:02 UTC] No.42200671[source]▶
This is nonsense. The majority of the population don't want to be fat, ugly, and unhealthy and want to persists in maintaining good healthy habits in which they don't eat junk food.

People who promotes fat positivity are ridiculed.

Blaming it on culture overly simplify the issue, which is going to be a complex mix of interacting causes.