When it comes to laws today, why does it feel as if they only treat the symptoms but avoid curing the illness? What diabetic or overweight person wouldn't want the miracle drug (with a jingle based on the song that opens with the following line) which implies the drug has mystical powers.
"Oh ho ho, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's not so."
Maybe, the drug should be called Morezempic. Or maybe, we should change our behaviors and do what has worked to maintain a healthy body for thousands of years... Proper diet and exercise. What do users who've taken Ozempic say about the weight loss function of this drug after years of use? Go figure. You still have to eat properly and exercise? This holds true whether you're taking a drug to lose weight or you get a bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass, which reduces the size of part of your stomach, the answer for many was to simply eat well and exercise. It's not even hard to figure this out as the correlation between obesity and processed foods (with high concentrations of bad stuff and low concentrations of good stuff) tracks too closely to be coincidence.
This all begs the question, why has body positivity become so popular? It's as if marketing companies and the retail stores that want to sell things to an evermore obese population are putting their profits over the health if their customers. No. This can't be why we now see plus-sized mannequins at Target... Can it? Target has always cared about its overweight consumers. Those heavier mannequins were just in backorder for decades.
As for what prompted this post, I was reading about a new law in California that will require manufacturers to put pollutent warning labels on new gas stoves sold there. Apparently, there is mounting evidence that leaks in gas stoves can exacerbate childhood asthma and increase the risk of causing leukemia. To this I would ask the following: How benefits from the elimination of gas stoves? Is there a correlation between gas stoves use and childhood asthma? Does this correlation definitively eliminate all other environmental possibilities as to the causes of childhood asthma and leukemia? And, finally, I would ask. If the mounting evidence against gas stoves is so great as to require a warning label, why would you just ban gas stoves in California altogether. Why not require gas stoves manufacturers to definitively refute and disprove most if not all claims of the toxicity of gas stoves? You know consumers don't read warning labels. All you're doing with warning labels is giving warning label manufacturers more money. All you're doing is treating the symptom, but you're not curing the disease. For all the good this new California law will do, you might as well provide a lifetime supply of Ozempic with every new gas stoves sold. Click this link to read about California's gas stoves policy
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