Anti-vax yootoobe morons should not be in charge of public health.
Nah I already learned about pediatric surgical airways today.
The fitness bro slop generally is a giant
problem
Like yeah no shit people who are active and work out more live healthier and longer lives. How much of that is attributable to it is a massive open question. Also, it turns out that telling people to exercise more is super ineffective.
His research is into stroke stuff it seems as well, not exercise.
Don’t worry though, I’m sure his position on these subjects is completely uninformed by his entire business hangs on his assumptions
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We’re up to 75%. The good news is that it’s really tough to get more obese people at that percent, you start to deal with “hard gainers” and people with jobs like tree planter and personal trainer. This isn’t just a US thing, it’s also happening in the rest of the world, just on a slight lag.
Regardless of Kennedy, who is a clown, months ago I made a post in health/fitness that the government should be building free gyms and hiring 100k trainers, as that’s much cheaper than dialysis centers and nurses. Maybe Kennedy would be open to replacing fluoride with Ozempic in the water supply.
Also, my thing with fitness is not primarily life extension, though that is major, https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1064591 (“US over 40s could live extra 5 years if they were all as active as top 25% of population”) but quality of life. I started to get fitness-pilled after having some medical issues and managing to reverse them with strenuous exercise 5 days/wk. (Orangethory fitness in my case). I am now more focused, more productive, and happier than I was prior to getting back into fitness. As someone who leans utilitarian, I think everyone should be healthier and happier.
Also, while it’s initially a pain in the ass, fitness is fairly cheap. The results are something someone like Trump or Musk would pay millions of dollars for, if they could, and it’s just sitting there on the ground for basically anyone to pick up.
I’m sure he would be crushed if his one-room gym for senior citizens experienced a downturn and he had to go back to practicing medicine.
Probably would be, and I’d be surprised if his accreditation was up to date tbh
People who do this kind of thing tend to really hate being a doctor
Be more efficient to subsidize memberships for the private sector gyms that already exist, not that it wold work.
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And people wouldn’t use it anyways.
The problem isn’t that people don’t have gyms or spaces to work out in.
Was literally about to say this. You better be paying people to go to these free gyms (or penalizing them for not going) or else they sit empty. Most people hate exercising and/or don’t know remotely what they should be doing.
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I have no idea what this conversation is even about. Everyone knows that exercise is good - we’ve had a President’s Council on Youth/Physical Fitness since the 1950s!
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It’s about who has the authority to impart such wisdom. Please to keep up
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I was wondering this, because people always comment, “Everyone knows that exercise is good for you,” it “promotes health”, and they move on secure in the knowledge that exercise is good for you, and maybe it’s something one could do if the need arose. I think the message needs to be that lack of exercise is literally killing you and robbing you of happiness, and if you do not want to die a slow, painful, debilitating, and expensive death, then exercise is necessary.
It’s an issue of framing, but the difference in framing reflects a different gestalt. The baseline, nonexercised human is not healthy. Two million years of evolution (and the 20 million years before that) built in the metabolic assumptions of scarce food and high activity, because everything is trying to kill and eat us, and we must kill and eat other things to survive (proof that any God is a complete psychopath). Now, we’ve hacked the system and burritos come to us in taxies. The dream of 10,000 generations has finally been realized! But, there are downsides! We got a monkey’s paw.
Everyone knows it’s good to floss, and many people don’t do it. I don’t do it and it has probably cost me $15k and my dentist can support a village in India (or hunt big game in his spare time). But what if lack of flossing was literally killing you, and the ADA and HHS pushed that message and had like free floss centers across the country. More people (maybe 15% more) would floss.
Easy for me to say, because I’m currently exercising and seeing the health benefits. However, if some clown had told me to exercise 6 years ago*, I likely would have known they were right and still pulled the ole Eric Cartman, “Screw you, I do what I want.” People hate being told what to do, that’s why it’s useful to go into the literature, where all the researchers are like, “Hey, these people were cured from this serious chronic condition, isn’t that neat?” Physical activity, exercise, and chronic diseases: A brief review - PMC)
[*I started exercising after 10 years off in the 6 months before covid, continued some during the first part of covid, then was mostly sedentary for the rest of covid and my health started to decline, and have been back on the horse for 6 months. My personal challenge will be to keep it up for a year, then two years, then 5 years, etc. until someone mistakenly slips me fentanyl at a rave party for elderly people in like 15 years.]
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Flossing afaik doesn’t really do much to prevent cavities.
Also if they did that people probably wouldn’t floss more
Don’t worry, I’m sure the poor houses will come up with ways of keeping inmates active.
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they thought that in 15
they did not think that in 21
He recently got on Ozempic and has had an epiphany on fitness.
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I suspect one reason Trump breaks so many written and unwritten rules is because it gets a rise out of people and the reaction makes it look like Trump is actually doing something. There will be some immigration stuff, but the main efforts will be tax cuts and judges, done with as little noise as possible, while Trump is trolling everyone with 10 crazy things that don’t matter. We then get all the hand wringing about Trump the dictator while he’s announcing Elon’s new role in a fake job that doesn’t do anything.
The main issue is whether Trump II will be more dangerous or pathetic. It’s looking pretty damn pathetic so far, but dangerous does remain a real risk. I’m just going to try to calibrate my reactions more toward amusement than panic, on the assumption that 90% of what he does will be obviously dumb and ineffective.
Like wtf could Kash Patel actually screw up as FBI director? He’s one third rate lawyer dude who would rather be on Fox than doing actual work. We know the DOJ won’t prosecute Trump, and he’d pardon cronies, so FBI director doesn’t matter much. Maybe he gets 2-3 hours of useful work done in a day.
Armies win wars, not generals, and the Trump army seems to me to be like 200 people. They say they want to replace civil servants. Good luck finding 15k Trumpists with college degrees to staff anything.
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Hopefully you will give yourself some grace