[zeroCalories]

It wouldn't be 1-to-1, but I wouldn't mind a war on sugar. Letting your kids be fat should be treated as child abuse, and you should lose access to medicare/medicaid if you've been fat for too long. People have gotten too soft(pun intended) about the right to do whatever you want.

[P_I_Staker]

I think you should be responsible for other peoples poor life decisions.

These decisions are part of the equation for health. eg people exercise poor judgement with their health as a result of another condition and genetics. Those decisions also lead to further health problems.

They’ve found multiple genes tied to obesity. It’s striking how poorly these conditions respond to attempts to get better. At a certain point you either blame the patient, or accept that this is an incurable disease. (by incurable I mean we’re not very effective at curing it).

Why just lash out at someone with a disease, when for the majority of people this isn’t really tough? They just don’t struggle with these issues.

[zeroCalories]

Of course we should offer help. This is an epidemic orders of magnitude more serious than covid. If I had it my way fatties would have a state mandated gastric bypass, but because we can't do that, we need take out all stops in society to disincentives these behaviors.

[Panzer04]

The problem is attacking sugar doesn't really fix the problem. Being fat is a problem with overeating as a whole, not necessarily with sugar.

That's part of the issue with policy - often it's not getting at the real heart of the problem.

[cloverich]

but sugar is often the main or even only issue, because it bypasses your normal "im full" pathways. It's also deceptively easy to take a balanced amount of calories and tip it. Add one soda a day to a balanced diet and you end up with 10lbs excess weight per year.

Id wager for many people struggling with weight that sugar is the main and perhaps even only problem.

[RoyalHenOil]

>you should lose access to medicare/medicaid if you've been fat for too long.

Right, so you want to compound the problem, not actually solve it.

[zeroCalories]

If we don't have to pay for their healthcare their not a problem anymore.