Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania used AI to analyze more than five years of posts from nearly 70,000 Reddit users, according to a report published in Medical Xpress.
A solid way to go about anything, of course.
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Meh, I'm fine with it. I think if you read enough people saying something, you can pick out that there is probably some truth to it.
It's not like they could come to Lemmy for info, because all they'd find is "Capitalism sucks! Eat the rich! Revolution!!" on every single post, regardless of subject. I posted a workout routine to a workout sub here once, and it quickly devolved into shit like "Cheeto man doesn't want people to work out." Lemmy posters are fucking obsessed with making everything political. Even health stuff.
So I don't think Reddit is too bad for their use case in this scenario. I came here from Reddit, but I'm on Reddit more than Lemmy again. Reddit has more people. More subjects. And less politics.
The source of these reported side effects is sketchy AF but... Most of these symptoms are just the usual things associated with rapid weight loss.
I didn't see anything that I haven't read anywhere else. And all the symptoms are probably better for the person than being fat. The amount of fat people I see daily is appalling. You all need to do something.
I'm hoping they take fat pills just until they get to healthy weight, then stop and adjust lifestlyes. But many won't, and the long-term use is what is gonna be the big issue I think.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania used AI to analyze posts from nearly 70,000 Reddit users.
Oh, for fucks sake! Is this what science has come to?
Yep. I'm ok with it.