One of the only hot "republicans" even though she hasn't stated it. They are just mad that some tranny look better than the majority of maga women.
Actually a pretty balanced article that pretty fairly presents the view of the “fat activists”. Closing: Tomlinson described a conversation he once had with Lee Kaplan, an obesity doctor and pioneer in the field. Kaplan asked Tomlinson if after being on the drugs for a while, he believed there was a chemical component to losing weight. Tomlinson said he did. Could this also mean, Kaplan asked, that something chemical in his body made Tomlinson gain all that weight in the first place? “I hadn’t thought about it in those clear and direct terms before,” Tomlinson recalled. “It was shattering in a way but also comforting. To be told, ‘It’s not your fault.’” The fracas over whether a slimmed down Lizzo or Kelly Clarkson has betrayed the body positivity movement may garner more attention, but activists readily acknowledge that these drugs offer real relief to some people. The more important point, they maintain, is that regardless of the successes GLP-1s bring to any one individual, the larger problem of how fatness is handled socially, medically and economically persists. “My goal isn’t to stop people from wanting to lose weight,” Osborn of NAAFA told me. Instead, it’s “to reach more people with the knowledge that you don’t have to beat yourself up over being in this body, that we can work toward creating a world where people can live freely in the bodies they are in.” That kind of message, she says, “offers that same sense of relief—but delivers it to everyone.” The article discusses at length the biases and discrimination that obese people face when trying to get treatment for a variety of ailments. My takeaway: obesity very likely leads to poorer health outcomes in most people and also obesity is often not fully in an individual’s control and they shouldn’t be stigmatized over it.
This whole thread is an example of our collective crazy. A couple of academics say something, a handful of activists do something and suddenly it's the position of the entire Democratic Party and everyone that leans left in politics. Meanwhile, you have high ranking elected officials spewing fascist crap, codifying anti-American slop in the Republican Party Platform, crazy conspiracists with high levels of access and power, a President bragging about being a dictator, literal Nazis appointed to federal positions while encouraging the disappearing of people off of American streets, and unelected weirdos like Laura Loomer making personnel decisions about our military, yet... Hey, no, you can't paint us Conservatives with such a broad brush--don't call us fascists. I know a gay guy and that little Mexican waitress down at Denny's is always nice to me, so there.
At the end of the day, people are not obese because of metabolism. It's because of poor eating and lifestyle choices. That being said, food and sugar are an addiction and some people's cravings to binge eat is stronger than things like alcohol or cocaine. It doesn't help that food is marketed and pushed on you everywhere. GLP-1's are a lifesaver for many because it can pretty much eliminate those cravings and reset people's understanding of what the appropriate amount of food to eat is. Unfortunately, most people think GLP-1 is what makes you lose weight when it is not. It causes you to not crave food which makes you eat less which is what makes you lose weight. This is why many gain the weight back as soon as they stop taking it. They start eating like they used to.
this is simply untrue, at least as a generalization. That is what the new ozempic-family of drugs is teaching us, quickly.
