The truth and nothing but the truth so help me ja |
Yes, I agree that there will definitely be some unforeseen long-term side effects. However, the benefits of taking GLP-1 inhibitors probably outweigh the risks. They appear create meaningful reductions for the risk of heart disease and cancer (-25% to -40%) in addition to helping with weight management. Just for perspective, reducing cancer by third would increase the average life expectancy of people taking the medication by around a year. So it will take very severe and frequent side effects to outweigh the health benefits. |
There has been a big cultural shift in terms of social desirable/acceptable weight IMO. Especially with kids and teens. I grew up in a working class area of the Midwest (graduated HS 1996) and am raising my kids in an UMC suburban in the Southwest. For reference.
Growing up, most kids/teens were slim-average build, with downright skinny being the next most common. Then there were some chubby kids (not a lot), and rarely- an obese kid. Most of the chubby kids weren’t chubby until teen years and was considered social not ideal unless it was maybe a boy who played football. At my kids’ HS, what we considered chubby back then is pretty much considered the ideal/norm for both boys and girls. Average-slim is considered skinny and not ideal- especially for boys. Still don’t see many obese kids in our area. All the teen girls try to exercise to build up a bigger butt/thighs and most of the boys are trying to gain weight to be bulkier looking. I think ideal standards have shifted through the generations, and that is a part of this. Lots of skinny parents in my area (moms especially) and usually their teens are quite a bit heavier than they are. I do wonder how things will go for these kids as adults. Most people gain weight over time/with age and if they are starting out heavier it seems to me they will have weight issues earlier than previous generations. |
It doesn’t have to be friends. You apparently have never met anyone from Mexico. Bizarre. |
If you ever watched My 600 Lb Life, a lot of people experience serious abuse as children and it leads them to start over eating as kids. And then they stay obese throughout their teen and adult years too. There’s a lot of physical and sexual abuse of kids going on these days. People, even kids, overeat to cope. |
Not more now than before though. That does not explain the current state. Something else has changed. |
It only gets "complicated" when one gets fat because they try to eat the same diet. |
Somehow it seems that people are much more willing to be the accomplices of these people. They seem to be home bound and have someone available to go on food runs for them and help them scrub in-between their fat rolls. In the past in a more hand to mouth existence who had the luxury to just sit in bed all day getting waited on hand and food? There was far less enabling of this type of behavior. |
Yes! And follow it up with "we feed our bodies enough that they take care of us, then we stop." |
Why do so many of you people attribute your habits as the perfect housewife because you’re well-off/well-educated. It’s embarrassing. Many families regardless of their income have kids and parents with wildly different schedules. People with jobs sometimes travel or work long hours. Kids have activities that are scheduled through dinner time, even some for younger kids. And how about all those athletes with practices and games after school? STFU with your well educated people just naturally have patterns. |
So do batch cooking and eat leftovers or eat picnic dinners, etc. It’s not Chick-fil-A or nothing. |
And then all of us here at DCUM can look for mom’s post when kid starts sneaking out of bed at night to raid the fridge. Awesome that you have all the answers, though. |
Yes, this is how it is at our private school…the moms are so much thinner than their teenage kids. Not sure why this is? It was the opposite when I was a teen! |
It’s the gentle parenting, kids in charge generation. “No that’s enough. Go play.” Used to be a totally acceptable thing to say to kids. |
So you haven’t even tried it and you’re already making up ridiculous scenarios as to the inevitable, catastrophic results. |