satire

this is why we need to bully fat people again

A Happy Meal is double that if not more depending on where you live. You ain't getting a happy meal for $2 in 2023.

if you live in a place where theyve inflated the price of Happy Meals more than what it says online then no doubt the food at the grocery is also inflated. so it really doesn’t matter. still abundantly cheaper and more convenient to eat fast food.

Nah dude, I live in bumbfuck no where and those are the prices.

I Cannot Vibe with Doctors

You did a great job ignoring the health outcomes of obese patients and focusing on attacking physicians and healthcare providers.

But I mean idk who these doctors are who are getting kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, but I personally have never seen it happening. It’s supposed to be illegal, so I’m not sure what the workarounds are

Why you following me then 🤨

I used Google.

and it still doesn’t change my argument. people living in poverty buy fast food bc it’s cheaper and more convenient. it’s not just ‘they wanna be fat.’

could never catch me blaming poor people in threads like these

bizarre behavior. nothing but compassion and understanding to em.

there's a difference between the price of something and the cost of it. sure the price of home cooked meals is usually lower than any takeout but the cost is time and knowledge that the person simply may not have. to disregard that because your family either had it better or somehow persevered in spite is to be callous to those who were not as well equipped and to not acknowledge the strengths your own family displayed, cmon now

I Vibe with str8dollaz ❤️

I mean yeah I get it but it is NOT cheaper. It looks to be cheaper since you aren't buying multiple meals at once, it is advertised as "cheap" but it is not compared to other food costs. What it does is makes it easy to get food on the table without buying, making, and cleaning up after yourself, which is why tons of people turn to it. It also tastes better than a lot of "cheap" groceries.

I care about the health outcomes bruh but a 12 year old on weight loss medication or getting weight loss surgery cant be the best way forward 😭

also lots of things in the USA are "illegal"

I mean, that’s a consideration too. and still
means that it’s cheaper in practice.

many ppl don’t have the disposable income to buy more than meals for a day or even just a meal at a time.

Wtf

kanye type beat

as someone who grew up a fat kid, i wouldn't have minded treatment like this. i didn't have a particularly bad diet and i got lots of exercise, but stayed obese well into my adulthood - until i was able to go to the gym on my own time and choose my own diet.

of course it shouldn't be mandated and it's probably not researched enough yet but eventually, i'd hope we can cure most human problems in safe & creative ways. including being a fatass.

I don’t know why you’re acting infallible when you’re not doing the math or cost a***ysis

First off happy meals are most purchased for very small kids, 3-8 mostly based on data. Happy meal would be 3-4 dollars but if you had kids older than 8 (especially 12+) you know that isn’t filling them up or enough calories for them. Hence you’d probably be looking at a larger meal between 6-8 dollars per kid being conservative.

Say we want to be conservative, 6 dollars a meal for two kids, that’s 12 dollars on average conservative estimate to feed each kid two fast food meals a day — $24. Then parents again will want to eat which will be 8-10ish for their meals and basically $40 dollars per day for their two meals.

You’re still at 64 dollars a day using the most conservative estimate 64x7= 448 estimate weekly spend on food. This would be even more in urban areas.

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I already gave you the grocery cost estimate which is a valid and real statistic. It’s 300 for a family of 4 on the high cost of living end.

The time factor is bullshit lol, you drive back and forth to a McDonald’s to pick up the food and go back home each way.

Spend one day in grocery store and buy 5-8 pounds of chicken thighs or chicken on sale breast, 5 pounds of rice, 3 4 dollar bag of frozen veggies, and some eggs and milk -/ your bill would be like 65-80 in a place like nyc and that would feed for your family of 3-4 for a week.

It takes 40 mins max to cook one night during the week and you could freeze.

You’re out of touch with reality. I’m a sector 8 baby of an immigrant family and my mom made that work on 7.45 an hour salary for 20 years lol. We never could afford to eat out because my family knew that s*** was a waste of money. Same with all my 6 uncles and aunts from both sides.

Run the math and figure out how much you’re paying per calorie with your weekly fast food family meal plan lol.

Definitely not the best method moving forward. And I personally disagree with Bariatric surgery in 99% of cases, but I do see a lot of benefit in medication for weight loss given the current circumstances for some patients.

I would love to not have to prescribe it, but unfortunately our hands are tied in a lot of these cases right now :/

I’m hopeful that things will get better, but this is the US we’re talking about, so who knows

these were so lit when I was little, used to have to get em in Mexico....

ya im not placing the blame on any individual doctor, this is just a symptom of a much much larger problem

y'all should watch Food, Inc.

dominion too