alt Hacker NewsThis article seems to frame things in such a strange way. Maybe instead of trying to get everyone obesity medication, we can instead educate society so we all understand nutrition and diet and can combat the ever-persistent forces of corporations pushing unhealthy food on us?
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Unfortunately companies make more profit by pushing unhealthy food onto consumers which can be evidenced by the money they spend advertising it. They're exploiting our instincts to seek out high calorie foods which was an advantage when humans didn't have a ready supply of food available at all times, but nowadays leads to a whole host of illnesses.
Why either/or?
Maybe we should try educate society on dangers of using heroin. I agree that it is a good thing, and we should continue educating people about its dangers. But clearly that alone didn’t solve the problem, and I think it would be a good idea to utilize alternative options as well (in addition to continuing the education of society on its dangers).
Look we've been educating people about this for the past 50 years at least - education doesn't work with base impulses.
Educating people will hardly work. Bans on junk foods at government level might.
If we could do that through education, then we'd have made it illegal for corporations to push unhealthy food.
Do you think overweight people don't know why they're overweight?
There are plenty of obese people that understand nutrition just fine, there are obese people who understand it well enough to have lost significant weight and gained it all back.
Clearly there is something else going on that we haven't grasped yet.