Why I Think We'll All Be Fat One Day

The popular weight loss drug Ozempic is the latest in a long line of medical innovations that claim to treat the underlying causes of obesity, namely chemical imbalances in the brain that lead to unhealthy relationships with food. However, the obesity epidemic cannot solely be attributed to chemical imbalances, as it is a crisis of spirit as well.

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[jjeKKell]

The irony is, we keep inventing new ways to mitigate depression, but our culture keeps finding new, more diabolical ways, for making us feel depressed.

[GenXfrom]

I used to be fat .... I worked hard and lost over 60lbs... And I've kept it off for almost 7 years now. And I haven't used a single drug to do that. If you have any willpower whatsoever, it's possible.

[sprezzatura]

Intermittent fasting. Two meals per day. Don't eat to you're full. No fast food. Exercise everyday. Live athletically.

[SuperStratosfear]

Taking anti-depressants for depression is like taking morphine for a broken bone. You only end up addressing the superficial symptoms that reflect an underlying problem.

[pridefall]

I'm an expat. Every time I visit home I gain 5-10 pounds then lose it again when I leave the US. The food is noticeably lower quality, the portion sizes are double, sometimes triple, and you can taste the sugar in EVERYTHING, even things that don't need sugar. Food is one of the main reasons I am happy to never live in the US again.

[lee]

Obesity is somewhat in the brain, mainly because our highly processed food acts in the brain like an addictive drug, but not because people are born to be fat. My prediction is that this treatment will stop working, because everything stops working eventually, even weight loss surgery patients regain at least some of the weight UNLESS they are vigilant in keeping to their healthy new habits. The only true way to permanent weight loss is eternal vigilance, and most people don't have that in them

[laurakosch]

Look at a beach picture from the 1970s.

Everyone was basically thin.

Few hats and sunglasses. No tattoos.

People didn’t pack a million items like they were on a big camping trip.

Just a Speedo and a towel. And miles of thin, tanned people.

I remember. I was there.

[JohnnyAloha]

This man speaks so clearly and his wisdom shines.

[sierragrey]

Well said. I can attest to the effectiveness of anti-depressants for some people. But as a class they are insanely over-prescribed and have been given when there are better ways to deal with some types of depression. They should never be first choice and should only be prescribed by psychiatrists.

[beverlypearson]

You can say the same about diabetes. (Talking about type 2 diabetes.) We have more drugs now to treat diabetes, but the number of type 2 diabetics has exploded.

[aaronstasel]

I agree with your sentiments about addiction: that it is not so much the chemical; it is a psychological problem. I've always said I don't believe in addiction, but you said it better than me. Kudos and thanks.

[margaretchayka]

Nope, nope, nope. A lack of control is a learned behavior for most people. It's just being lazy about yourself. Hard things vs. easy things, and simple human nature.

[alainaatk.]

I was feeling conflicted about working out today, so thank you for releasing this video 🙏🏻

[dangerdolls]

Amen, Klavan. I thought much the same thing when I saw that article title. It is simply yet another example of the excuses made for not assuming any responsibility for the self.

[BBntw]

Everyone is depressed here and there, does not mean you have to take drugs. Don't feed into it keep, yourself busy and do not let it take over. I had a few dark years in my life staring into the abyss and almost disappeared in it. But never took antidepressants. I worked things out on my own.

[tommyglisten]

I had multiple friends in high school who took anti depressants and they were still always depressed.

[newcreationcor]

Correlation does not equal causation--My statistics professor taught me that freshman year of college. Just because a pill can affect your body or brain does not mean that it is the only way to fix the problem

[elliottstevens]

I love how you pull back the curtain on the Materialists. Keep it up sir!!!!

[dinasourprincessparty]

Going carnivore has made me realize how effectively sugar acts as a drug in the body. If I’m free of it, I don’t even think of it, I’m not ever hungry for it. The only time I ever want sugar is when I’m sad. And if I make the mistake of having any, I go from thinking about food once maybe twice a day when I’m hungry, to constantly, incessantly, obsessively. Even if my stomach is bursting, I want more food. Why? Because sugar and carbs only masquerades as food, your body is still starving or nutrition, even while it puts on fat.

[curtbrackenrich]

I agree with Klavan mostly, but here I think he misses the mark a bit. The obesity epidemic is not here simply because America became weak-willed, it's our food. You can take any generation of Americans and have them eat the food we eat today, and they'd likely have the same levels of obesity. How do I know this? Because that's exactly what happened. After all, humans haven't somehow completely changed in 50 years or so, but our food did. Our food is utterly changed from a couple generations back, when obesity was rare, and now it's killing us.

How many stories do we hear of Europeans coming here on vacation and getting sick on our food? Or Americans living abroad and feeling better than ever once they got away from the American diet. It's the sugar, the preservatives, the chemcals, all of it. it's our food.

We recently did an experiment with a Kit Kat candy bar we brought back from London, and a Kit Kat bought at a local gas station in Michigan. The #4 ingredient in the American Kit Kat is vegetable oil, in the U.K candy bar it's butter. Now which do think tasted better? Which do you think is less toxic to the body? It's just a small example but it's endemic in all our food.