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    1. Quotidiania (Just Some Guy)‏ @quotidiania Jul 12
      Replying to @sgodofsk @eigenrobot

      Why not? Same q for you robot. The junk food thing seems prima facie plausible to me

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    2. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Jul 12
      Replying to @quotidiania @eigenrobot

      diets would work better if that were it

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    3. Quotidiania (Just Some Guy)‏ @quotidiania Jul 12
      Replying to @sgodofsk @eigenrobot

      Isn't the big problem with diets compliance?

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    4. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Jul 12
      Replying to @quotidiania @eigenrobot

      I don't know.

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    5. Quotidiania (Just Some Guy)‏ @quotidiania Jul 12
      Replying to @sgodofsk @eigenrobot

      From the scattering of stuff I've read that's my impression. People who comply or undergo medically supervised diets do lose weight The keeping it off still seems tricky in a lot of cases, but I have a hunch some of that is because most diets are too extreme

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    6. Quotidiania (Just Some Guy)‏ @quotidiania Jul 12
      Replying to @quotidiania @sgodofsk @eigenrobot

      Inb4 compliance is also downstream of body stuff, like hormones, ditto with "falling off the wagon" after the initial success

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    7. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Jul 12
      Replying to @quotidiania @eigenrobot

      a few things: 1. weight is clearly extremely homeostatic. I've never been overweight idk what it's like being on a diet but I understand you feel hungry a lot and it sucks. 2. related to above, you'll to maintain a certain energy balance every day and if it's wrong you get fat

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    8. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Jul 12
      Replying to @sgodofsk @quotidiania @eigenrobot

      3. this seems maybe related to diet because western diets make people and animals fat or something? 4. but if you actually try to isolate which part all you get is noise also 5. poor people get fat more but "healthy" food is, in fact, very very very cheap

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    9. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Jul 12
      Replying to @sgodofsk @quotidiania @eigenrobot

      6. related to 5, if you go to parts of europe where salaries are low and healthy food is even more expensive you get people in the same real income bracket who are less fat. So...is it...executive function?

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    10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 12
      Replying to @sgodofsk @quotidiania

      rich people are shamed much more aggressively for being fat than poor people is one suspicion I have another is that while such foods are cheap in monetary terms they are not in terms of convenience nor in human capital required to prepare them

      5 replies 1 retweet 31 likes
      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 12
      Replying to @eigenrobot @sgodofsk @quotidiania

      extremely related from mcardlehttps://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/10/the-end-of-the-war-on-fat/4284/ …

      2:12 PM - 12 Jul 2021
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        2. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Jul 12
          Replying to @eigenrobot @quotidiania

          Yeah I mean, if you're willing to make your own, like, matzo for dinner every day and eat it with ground beef you can feed a family of four on that for like what $70 a week? tops? I did the math on this at one point. But that's actually a lot of work. And it will taste like shit.

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        3. Jonathan  🎃‏ @PseudoJonathan Jul 12
          Replying to @sgodofsk @eigenrobot @quotidiania

          You can buy matzah, and roast fowl are v cheap Just need some carrots and milk and you’re good

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        2. Quotidiania (Just Some Guy)‏ @quotidiania Jul 12
          Replying to @eigenrobot @sgodofsk

          From my personal experience, McArdle nails something v important here I grew up poor-ish. My parents grew up Actually Poor (TM). We just simply couldn't *conceive* of many ways to enjoy life!

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        3. Quotidiania (Just Some Guy)‏ @quotidiania Jul 12
          Replying to @quotidiania @eigenrobot @sgodofsk

          The result: both my parents were prone to milking food for all it was worth in terms of pleasure, and I picked that up, too. I'd stuff my face, eat random junk food, because it made me feel good Sometimes I think it's a miracle I didn't get fat (cf. homeostasis, ig)

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        2. MC_Enthusiast‏ @Laserpig_Utopia Jul 12
          Replying to @eigenrobot @sgodofsk @quotidiania

          I've got 5k on NVO that she's wrong about everyone wanting that weight loss pill (once weekly injection (tm))

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. MC_Enthusiast‏ @Laserpig_Utopia Jul 12
          Replying to @Laserpig_Utopia @eigenrobot and

          The medical industry is very likely to go bananas on this front especially if there's any significant shift in insurance coverage for weight loss medication and I'm willing to bet that there will be (disclaimer I work in the industry)

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