MCGA… Has a very American ring to it

McGa

The dieticians you talked to aren’t medical dieticians then, they’re people who call themselves dieticians without any university degree. AI will just spew whatever bullshit it was trained on so you’ll probably be reassured that what you’re doing is ok because it was trained on/r/fitness or whatever instead of scientific papers.

Eating out of boredom is an unhealthy relationship to food, I’m not saying all cases are out of trauma (holy shit lemmings have a hard time when things aren’t spelled out for them), I’m saying the underlying issue needs to be fixed to have a permanent solution, you said so yourself, you need the drugs and low carbs diet in order to fix the problem, stop both and the problem comes back.

You didn’t fix your leaking roof, you applied a patch and it will start leaking again if you remove it.

Bingo, those medications are as effective as any other diet or change of habits, if you have a problematic relationship with food you need to fix the reason behind it otherwise the moment you stop you’ll gain your weight back.

“a chance to form good habits”

And that’s the issue right there, without professional support the majority of people who have an unhealthy relationship with their food just fall down the same hole whenever they manage to get out of it, may it be through diet or medications or even surgery.

Dietician training now puts a lot of focus on psychology because of that, giving someone a pill to make them lose weight won’t fix the childhood trauma of being abused that causes them to find comfort in food, if they stop the medication that is still there, that’s why the long term failure rate of diets is so high, they don’t address the why, just the what.

They work!*

*aslongasyoudontstop

Sorry, I thought Japan was at the same level as Korea but it’s actually much higher.

So yeah, Korea is a special case.

Iceland is at 1.59

The trend is fairly similar but I would think that mass immigration to the US probably stabilized things from the 70s and let’s not act like access to contraceptives/abortion is that good in the US, which probably helped a lot to keep it closer to replacement

Yeah that’s why I’m showing historical data and mentioning that poorer people tend to have more kids even in first world countries.

Finland was close to 5 in 1900 and it’s a clear downward trend with one bounce after WW2

So even before all the shit we’re living now people were having less and less kids.

My in laws have an acre and their kids mostly play on about ⅒ of it because that’s where their stuff is, give people parks and they can live with a smaller yard. It’s not sustainable to give everyone ½ an acre.

1.46 in Germany
1.24 in Italy
1.32 in Finland
1.52 in Sweden
1.41 in Norway
1.55 in Denmark
1.38 in Quebec

So no, it’s not much higher than Italy or Germany, Korea and Japan are special cases though.

Well people need to make up their minds then. If people keep saying that urban spread is an issue, we need higher density and less reliance on cars we can’t go and ask to have ½ acre lots for each and every parents.

Maybe OP is only talking about what they want in exchange for having kids and well I’m sure they’re able to afford it if they truly want it (since they mention they’re pretty well off) but it will come with moving far from a urban center.

It’s not a monetary issue, otherwise the middle class would have more kids than the poor, which isn’t the case. It’s simply that when given the right and the means to control how many kids they have, people choose to not have enough to renew the population.

Same pattern everywhere as women gain rights over their body and as contraceptives become available. Even in periods where there was a strong middle class, even in countries where socio-economic inequalities aren’t as much an issue. Northern European countries and Quebec are some of the places with the most socio-economic equity and their birthrate is down the drain.

Half acre? You don’t need that much space for kids 😂

Being energy efficient means not having to add more infrastructure to produce electricity which is the most environmentally friendly thing we can do when it comes to electricity production. Everyone should have an air fryer so they wouldn’t have to use their oven for small things!

To the roof… How did that happen? 😐

Oh you sweet summer child.

Lulz, I guess girls and gays don’t exist.

You believe that Dad #1 wouldn’t be treated or viewed differently? I’m sure you wouldn’t be arguing if it was the mothers that kids were rating.

There’s a ton of such posts on Lemmy, new users, create post about something that will certainly lead to people commenting, deleted 24h later.

New account as of 5h ago… Wanna bet the account won’t exist in 24h and the post will have been deleted? I’ve seen way too many posts like that with shocking stuff being posted to generate reactions, I bet it’s used to train AI.