I say yes. In a matter of years, there will be medication that will keep you fit and lean, without dangerous side effects or intrusive surgery. It will seem like the dark ages when you actually had to work hard to be "in shape."
Just a random thought I had this afternoon. Happy New Year Letsrun.
The problem with this is that all the best athletes would have to take these pills to get good. And then there would be huge controversy over whether these pills give some athletes an unfair advantage or not.
No. That's ridiculous. Fitness is a combination of metabolism and movement. Obese people don't live the same lifestyle as lean people.
Sham 69 wrote:
The problem with this is that all the best athletes would have to take these pills to get good. And then there would be huge controversy over whether these pills give some athletes an unfair advantage or not.
Well that's not a big deal. At the end of the day 73 percent of people in America are overweight while only a few thousand are Olympian athletes.
Yes. Technology will eventually lead to the extinction of the human race. At this point, obesity will obviously cease to exist.
if it does, I just want a few month heads up in advance so i can start pigging out in a massive way. And i mean two-fisted face stuffing.
It already has, people just won't use it over the cakehole. :)
idodood wrote:
No. That's ridiculous. Fitness is a combination of metabolism and movement. Obese people don't live the same lifestyle as lean people.
Science will find a way to signal your body to make beneficial adaptations normally resulting from exercise without having to change your "lifestyle."
Science is more interested in causing obesity by creating massive food surpluses with its fancy ag tech.
If it ever does cure obesity, the eventual collapse of the massive food surplus will make everyone starve a lot faster. Storing fat is famine insurance.
I wouldn't be shocked if pharmaceutical means of regulating metabolism was eventually possible. The potential future uses of mRNA are pretty large.
Hardloper wrote:
I say yes. In a matter of years, there will be medication that will keep you fit and lean, without dangerous side effects or intrusive surgery. It will seem like the dark ages when you actually had to work hard to be "in shape."
Just a random thought I had this afternoon. Happy New Year Letsrun.
No need for Science on this matter really.
You need good policy making. Starting from the right choices for urban masterplans, creating the right zoning laws and incentives to get more healthy stores in the right places and get rid of all that corporate lobbing.
Urbanist wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
I say yes. In a matter of years, there will be medication that will keep you fit and lean, without dangerous side effects or intrusive surgery. It will seem like the dark ages when you actually had to work hard to be "in shape."
Just a random thought I had this afternoon. Happy New Year Letsrun.
No need for Science on this matter really.
You need good policy making. Starting from the right choices for urban masterplans, creating the right zoning laws and incentives to get more healthy stores in the right places and get rid of all that corporate lobbing.
buckle up, big boy, because the hate will soon be coming your way....
Hardloper wrote:
I say yes. In a matter of years, there will be medication that will keep you fit and lean, without dangerous side effects or intrusive surgery. It will seem like the dark ages when you actually had to work hard to be "in shape."
Just a random thought I had this afternoon. Happy New Year Letsrun.
Nope. There may be a pill to take to lose weight, but being thin does not = health. No short cut to eliminate the need for healthy diet and exercise.
Yes, the technology to do this already exists with stem cells take from brown fat, but the regulatory barriers are onerous. It's really unfortunate.
There's already weight loss pills for people that are lazy. Speed up heart rate to burn more calories and ones to suppress hunger. Sad that some people can't do it the natural way though.
nopenever wrote:
Yes, the technology to do this already exists with stem cells take from brown fat, but the regulatory barriers are onerous. It's really unfortunate.
Interesting
Obesity doesn't need a cure. What kind of insanity is that. Obesity is addition of the surplus. You are intentionally storing a surplus quantity. The cure to obesity is subtraction or abstraction from the physical.
Darwin, C. wrote:
Obesity doesn't need a cure. What kind of insanity is that. Obesity is addition of the surplus. You are intentionally storing a surplus quantity. The cure to obesity is subtraction or abstraction from the physical.
Technically, you are correct. Its worth looking at this through a broader lens though.
I watched a documentary about this a few years ago - about the possibility of an "exercise in a pill". It was pretty interesting. Its easy to say that obese = lazy (I assume this is what you are getting at), but there's more to it than that. There's a number of people who would be interested in/benefit from something like this.
1. People with slowed metabolism due to thyroid/hormonal/other medical issues. For example, certain medications can ruin you thyroid/metabolism, or someone with hormonal issues that cause the body to store extra fat. Realistically, you can't always diet/exercise your way out of that.
2. Disabled people who would like to exercise/benefit from it, but physically cannot.
3. The severely obese - the people who are too heavy to effectively exercise, or whos situation is so dire that they need help.
--here's where the ethical line comes into play--
4. people who want to use something like this for doping purposes
5. Normal joe's who are too lazy to exercise
6. People who would rather spend their time not exercising. They get no pleasure out of it, and you don't have to, why bother? If they like to play piano more than run, then why are we making them run? They don't force me to play piano. People take multi-vitamins because they don't want to eat vegetables, this wouldn't be much different.
Didn't the German scientists already invented a substance to do this about hundred years ago? The problem is it is illegal without a doctor prescription.
Hardloper wrote:
I say yes. In a matter of years, there will be medication that will keep you fit and lean, without dangerous side effects or intrusive surgery. It will seem like the dark ages when you actually had to work hard to be "in shape."
Just a random thought I had this afternoon. Happy New Year Letsrun.
No need. Impending economic collapse will cure the obesity epidemic. There are very few fat people in Venezuela.