Obesity

Your Willpower Isn’t Failing. You’re Fighting the Tobacco Industry.

The obesity epidemic isn’t a natural evolution of human willpower; it’s a deliberate corporate takeover. When tobacco giants faced regulatory extinction in the 1980s, they didn’t just foldβ€”they bought food companies and applied their lethal nicotine addiction science to our everyday snacks, weaponizing basic nourishment. Stop blaming yourself for the food you crave.

The Skinny Premium Is a Lie. It Was Always a Fat Tax.

The wage boost from weight loss was never about productivity. A new NBER study on GLP-1 drugs reveals that the ‘skinny premium’ was actually a stigma tax on people society judged as morally defective. As weight loss becomes medical rather than moral, the economic advantage of thinness may erode β€” exposing the discrimination that was there all along.