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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in a high poverty school and by 5th-6th grade, nearly every student is overweight. It's sad. Some of them stayed overweight as they grew but some of them were a normal weight and then just packed on the pounds.[/quote]

Its all the cheap food loaded with unhealthy grains and sugar / high fructose corn syrup.

Healthy food is expensive. [/quote]

No it isn’t.  Can we just stop this? It is a cultural shift to eat crap as the majority of your food intake, especially for low income. [/quote]

Haven’t you been reading thisnthread?  It’s very clear that all the little UMC Larlo’s and Larla’s are getting fat because of their extra servings of chicken thighs and soup  :roll: [/quote]

I think it is both.  Many people eat a lot of crap food, and many people overeat in general.

But wherever.  All of your kids are likely to be fat eventually anyhow.  It’s projected by 2050 >90% of adults will be overweight [/quote]

That will certainly not happen with all of the highly effective weight loss medications currently on the market an in the development pipeline. Obesity will become a disease that is almost nonexistent among people that can afford these medications. [/quote]

And those people will have other health issues as the story will unfold [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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