alt Hacker NewsI don’t agree they are a crutch.
However, if they are, then modern life is a sledge hammer that’s constantly breaking your legs.
Our (US, UK, Australia and so on) life styles and food chain have created this obesity problem.
We are now a sedentary population, and low-nutrient high-calorie food is being made readily available to stressed, tired, overworked, and economically challenged people. When you are stressed and tired, you don’t make the best choices!
These drugs are not so much a crutch as they are a rescue helicopter!
We still need education though.
These drugs might reduce hunger, but they won’t stop you from consuming junk-food. People are used to overeating, and a feeling full isn’t always what’s stopping them from eating!
So we do absolutely need to address the root of problem….
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>These drugs are not so much a crutch as they are a rescue helicopter!
Yes, but once you’re rescued you hopefully try to avoid falling in the same situation that lead you to have to be rescued the first time. This should be a double approach solution, a short term (the drug) and a long term ( lifestyle changes) it can be done with the second only but personal commitment is required. Besides that we, as a society, are not accustomed to “subtractive solutions” they’re simply never considered or pushed by anyone because there’s no money on them. Money is in “creating solutions” not in “eliminating problems”
Amazingly enough, the drugs do address the root of the problem. Snacking / junk food is less appealing on them.