> people need to realize instead that moderation is a better answer than continuing to be gluttanous over dubiously "better" alternatives.
The article:
> The prudent thing to do is eschew these products altogether.
I find it emptier than the calories you condemn. And of worse character than the people you so impugn upon.
Why? Why not make a more enjoyable world? Why insist in denial? It's so confusing to me that such bitterness and aggressive zeal, such negative energies, go so unchecked. And for what?
I hate to drag an innocent into my countrr-tirade, but Paul Ford writing about mounjaro/glp-1 was a great article for raising this issue that medicine has fixated upon a correction of disease, leaving it adrift at dealing with the questions of what happens if biotechnology can make us better. Not just correct the wrong, but give us that better living through chemistry (etc). It's so tiring that the progressive possibilities we encounter out there always spark such fierce negative clawing us backward condemnations. It's all a hill of supposition, a politics of fear & scaring. https://www.wired.com/story/new-drug-switched-off-appetite-m...
I do think there are amazing human characteristics of restraint & measure, that have to be developed. But I don't necessarily know that projecting that onto our food or how we manage our weight is particularly an important load bearing piece of that human character. I don't think anyone knows that. And it seems like we're back at this constantly repeating juncture: we can improve how enjoyable life is for many, and, "this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -DA