re: It's not their fault they're fat! NPR edition

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Obesity is disease caused by shoving trash food into your jowls.

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Inaccurate. The disease of obesity causes imbalances in the body’s chemistry. One of the main targets of the disease of obesity is GLP1.

There are plenty of people that have the disease of obesity that are not currently overweight. These people constantly suffer from hunger and feelings of starvation or overwork their bodies to burn enough calories to counter the caloric intake cause by the disease of obesity.

Plenty of people have diabetes. They take medicine to keep the symptoms from occurring. The disease of obesity is the same. Old thinking still prevails(the bulk of this board is ground zero for that), which is why so many can’t wrap their heads around the reality of this.

Fortunately, the medical community knows it is a disease, has proven it is a disease, and now has effective ways to fight the disease.

Old mentality is still a challenge that will be overcome in time.

It’s a disease. That is factual. Not an opinion.

Edit to add: in no way am I saying people shouldn’t eat healthy and exercise. They are absolutely important. The faster widespread acceptance happens around this issue the faster the second leading preventable cause of death in our great country can be addressed(the bulk of this board are amongst those we are trying to help).