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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down15·edit-27 months ago Everyone is fat Exactly, which points squarely at an environmental cause, not at individual sloth/gluttony or some shit like that. The conclusion you’re saying doctors arrive at—which I don’t doubt you’re correct about—is actually completely fucking backwards.
minus-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down4·7 months agoYeah but your doctor cant prescribe you burning down capitalism, they can prescribe you lower your caloric intake.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up21·7 months ago Yeah but your doctor cant prescribe you burning down capitalism Unless…
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22·7 months ago“Actually officer I have a prescription”
minus-squareRealitätsverlust@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·7 months ago which points squarely at an environmental cause No, it points to people eating processed food and other shit. Guess what, you can still be healthy if you eat healthy.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoThat’s the cause I think they were referring to.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months agoSo then the question becomes, why is processed food and other shit so pervasive in the average American diet? That’s what an environmental factor is. Refusing to think about the problem in terms of systems because you’ve got a hard-on for blaming individuals is absolutely missing the point.
minus-squareJujugatame@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoYou are 100% correct that we as a society have a problem with this That’s why the individual has to take extra care to eat right and excersise. Their doctor needs to emphasize this as much as possible. VCan we fix out society? I don’t know, I sure hope so. But in the meantime people are responsible for their own health.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down13·7 months agoThat’s the trick! They believe everyone is gluttonous and slothful because they’re misanthropic.
Exactly, which points squarely at an environmental cause, not at individual sloth/gluttony or some shit like that.
The conclusion you’re saying doctors arrive at—which I don’t doubt you’re correct about—is actually completely fucking backwards.
Yeah but your doctor cant prescribe you burning down capitalism, they can prescribe you lower your caloric intake.
Unless…
“Actually officer I have a prescription”
No, it points to people eating processed food and other shit. Guess what, you can still be healthy if you eat healthy.
That’s the cause I think they were referring to.
So then the question becomes, why is processed food and other shit so pervasive in the average American diet? That’s what an environmental factor is.
Refusing to think about the problem in terms of systems because you’ve got a hard-on for blaming individuals is absolutely missing the point.
You are 100% correct that we as a society have a problem with this
That’s why the individual has to take extra care to eat right and excersise. Their doctor needs to emphasize this as much as possible.
VCan we fix out society? I don’t know, I sure hope so. But in the meantime people are responsible for their own health.
That’s the trick!
They believe everyone is gluttonous and slothful because they’re misanthropic.