[cthalupa]

I’ll make my usual response: we know that being obese is basically the worst possible thing you can do to yourself, and the longer you are, the worse it is. The side effects are going to be pretty awful just to negate that, much less all the other things they seem to be good for.

[sandworm101]

>> being obese is basically the worst possible thing you can do to yourself

Lol. I can think of dozens of worse things. Drinking. Cocaine addiction. Meth. Winding up in prison for some reason. Riding a motorcycle without a proper helmet. Getting into a plane flown by Harrison Ford. Even simple unprotected sex can lead to massive medical problems. Ever looked up the average life expectancy of professional athletes, especially the NFL? It isn't great.

[cthalupa]

> Drinking

Being obese is probably worse for you. NAFLD has long eclipsed alcohol related liver issues.

> Even simple unprotected sex can lead to massive medical problems

Even treated HIV is probably less of a risk to your long term health than obesity, but I'm not a doctor.

> Cocaine addiction. Meth

OK, yes, there are illegal drugs that are going to be worse for you than being fat.

I'll rephrase:

Being obese is basically the worst possible thing you can do to yourself that affects a huge portion of the population of the western world.

Very very few people are riding motorcycles without a helmet, even fewer are getting into planes flown by harrison ford, only a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the population even has the option of being a professional athlete.

[amenhotep]

I like how the implicit sorting at the end here suggests Harrison Ford is ferrying around more people than there are professional athletes. Busy fella!

[consteval]

> drinking

GLP-1 solves this too

> Cocaine addiction

GLP-1 solves this

> Meth

GLP-1 solves this

> Prison ... no helmet

Okay, GLP-1 don't solve these but these aren't medical issues. This is just danger

> Even simple unprotected sex can lead to massive medical problems

Mmm... not really. People overblow this. Pretty much all STIs are completely harmless to your health if treated. One shot of penicillin and you're good to go. Your average flu is probably much worse than syphilis or chlamydia. HIV is the "biggest" risk, but HIV doesn't even impact your lifespan anymore.

[astrange]

> Drinking. Cocaine addiction. Meth.

Ozempic treats all of those too.