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The new norm?

Anjou:
I have heard the opposite:
www.freethink.com/biotech/obesity-rate-falling


Looking at the data you posted, I am hesitant to say it's truly falling. In fact, the documentation even indicates that it's too soon to tell.

Honestly, I do not see it falling any time soon as the things needed to tackle the obesity epidemic is intertwined with other things that people refuse to tackle - poverty, food desserts, unwalkable cities designed by racist city planners (look up the history of Atlanta's city planning - it's actually insane), etc. etc.

Until we can tackle these things, the obesity epidemic will not go anywhere. No amount of Ozempic will fix that.
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The new norm?

Anjou:
I have heard the opposite:
www.freethink.com/biotech/obesity-rate-falling

Munchies:
Looking at the data you posted, I am hesitant to say it's truly falling. In fact, the documentation even indicates that it's too soon to tell.

Honestly, I do not see it falling any time soon as the things needed to tackle the obesity epidemic is intertwined with other things that people refuse to tackle - poverty, food desserts, unwalkable cities designed by racist city planners (look up the history of Atlanta's city planning - it's actually insane), etc. etc.

Until we can tackle these things, the obesity epidemic will not go anywhere. No amount of Ozempic will fix that.

Very true
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The new norm?

BromineMoon:
With obesity rates rising worldwide, does anyone else think that fat appreciation will become more commonplace?

52Percent:
Probably not because powerful people in the fitness industry like Coach Greg exist. That dude wants to pretty much eliminate the fats from existing by having ideas of taxing them like how we wanted to tax the rich.

Munchies:
Yeah, bigotry is on the rise as of late. I won;t get into the weeds of it all because I don't wanna. But for the purposes of this specific thread, I will say that people are getting a lil too comfy being needlessly cruel to other people in a multitude of ways.


I can’t agree with you more, my friend. And their enablers are just as annoying.
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The new norm?

This might be heretical especially on this site. But there will always be people who are just attracted to thinner bodies.

I mean im attracted to larger bodies it makes sense that someone would have an opposite viewpoint/desire. Even without all the media and such currently working against larger bodies.

I think the norm we will eventually reach. Being optimistic, is not the out right removal of diets/media pressure and such, but the gradual acceptance by some groups(not all) for communities like this.

This is the best I can see happening.
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The new norm?

I think there may have been a moment where with a bigger push, fat acceptance could have become somewhat more commonplace.

But with all the Ozempics and Wegovys saturating the market, I fear the pendulum has swung directly back towards diet culture and thinness.
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