Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor

• SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tl;dr: I 100% agree with you

  As quality of life declines, addictions will rise. Anything to stave off the cortisol and get a little more dopamine. Anything to make life a little less miserable. And the most socially acceptable addiction, the one they engineer daily to be more effective?

  Food

  And it’s totally fine to eat what you like, to have a big dinner with friends, to treat yourself. Until it isn’t. Until you cross an abstract threshold from socially acceptable to being a glutton. You wake up one morning and you’re a fat piece of shit draining resources and injuring nurses with your giant obese ass. Why didn’t you exercise a little self control? Why didn’t you go for a jog? Just exert a little willpower you lazy bastard. You deserve this. Actions have consequences.

  You deserve to die on the factory floor before you can collect a pension, you selfish asshole

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have eaten a consistent 2200 calories a day for about 6 years. I track everything every day. I’m a solid 165lbs.

    Except when I’m not. During a period of extremely high stress, I ended up at 190lbs. Same diet, but my body disagreed.

    Why? Because “calories in calories out” is the “frictionless plane and no air resistance” of the nutrition world. Sure, it’s accurate. But it’s also so simplistic as to be useless.

    So judge all you like, and you do seem to like it, but don’t pretend it’s as simple as “he ate too much so of course he died”.

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    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So judge all you like, and you do seem to like it

      Oh, sorry, my tone is difficult to read over text. I forget that sometimes. I was, in fact, speaking against condemning people for their dietary decisions. Processed food is engineered to be addictive and not provide long term benefit, and obesity is like the one sin people can still condemn others for indiscriminately. But yeah, easy to read my post as the opposite of that, my bad

      And man, yeah, weight fluctuating despite consistent caloric intake because of stress? Oh yes! Add to that the fact that a person has less mental bandwidth to give to dietary needs and it can become a negative feedback loop. I’m living that reality right now. Plus changes in metabolism from middle age. It sucks

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