Heart disease and obesity are among the highest causes of mortality in the United States. This idea that everyone would be better off "biting the bullet" does not play out in reality.
Unless you are going to magically fix our food supply and reign in the economic incentives for selling garbage food, chemically induced weight loss is still a better option.
Making people sick and selling them the cure is a sanctioned part of American Capitalism. Making it illegal to do such things is demonized as socialism.
Telling people they are individually responsible for fighting a system designed to make them fat and then die might make you feel good and correct, but it's doing fuck all to solve the issue.
All is working as intended by the ghouls who drive policy that is friendly to the economy. Turning the entire country into one slow motion concentration camp.
Unless you are going to magically fix our food supply and reign in the economic incentives for selling garbage food, chemically induced weight loss is still a better option.
Making people sick and selling them the cure is a sanctioned part of American Capitalism. Making it illegal to do such things is demonized as socialism.
Telling people they are individually responsible for fighting a system designed to make them fat and then die might make you feel good and correct, but it's doing fuck all to solve the issue.
All is working as intended by the ghouls who drive policy that is friendly to the economy. Turning the entire country into one slow motion concentration camp.