Name: Bill Maher on Obesity Being Treated as a Disease
Uploaded: 2023-09-02T18:00:41.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Maher on Obesity Being Treated as a Disease' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-02. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- But fat is fat.
- Fat is fat.
- And it's not, it's just not healthy.
Even if you find it beautiful or sexy
or whatever you want, it's just science.
It's bad for literally every part of your health,
from how you poop to your eyesight.
There's nothing that obesity doesn't affect negatively.
- You know who doesn't get any of that
body positivity shit, though, is men.
Nobody gives a fuck about men.
- If men are fat, you're just fat.
That's like when James Corden tried that shit with you.
- Yes.
- It was such an obvious ploy.
Oh, you're hurting my feelings, Bill.
- Oh yes.
- Fat shaming.
Like, first of all, that guy's fat from food.
He's not like, oh my God, he's got a genetic disorder.
He's just, that's how a guy's obviously not working out
and living, living a good life, eating some nice food,
a little plump, fixable.
Interesting, well, and interesting, a year or so after he made his big crusade
against me,
he signed a big contract, I think, with Weight Watchers.
- Bah!
- You know, he turned right around.
But even Weight Watchers is out of style because now we've given up on the idea
that obesity is something that can be contained by exercise and diet.
It's now a disease.
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, these new drugs they have.
- Ozempic.
- Ozempic.
- Yeah.
- I was reading about Ozempic.
I didn't know this until recently.
They have zero clue why it works.
- Hmm.
- They know that it works, just not why.
This would bother me.
- Yeah.
- A little, you know.
- It should.
- That if they're giving me something and they're like, hey, this new miracle
pill, just take it.
We're working on the reason why it might do this to you, but until then, just
fuck it.
- There's no biological free lunch either.
I have friends that are on that stuff and one friend who just got off of it
because he was
having some serious gastrointestinal issues that are apparently one of the side
effects.
It's not, there's no free lunch.
If you're taking an injection that makes you less hungry, something's going on.
That's probably not good.
- Yes.
- They're also losing a lot of connective tissue, bone mass and muscle mass.
My good friend, Peter Atiyah, did a study on his patients.
He's a doctor, did a study on patients that took Ozempic and one of the things
they found
is they lost weight, but they gained fat.
They were actually had a higher percentage of body fat because they were
primarily losing
muscle tissue and connective tissue.
They were losing so much of that, that even though they lost like 20 pounds,
they actually
went from like 15% body fat to maybe 20% body fat or whatever the number was.
- But what I find the most alarming is the way in just a matter of a few years,
the group
think that this is a disease now that cannot be controlled by what for 50, a
hundred, a million
years before this, it was the scientific consensus that of course you can
control it with diet
and exercise.
Just in a couple of years, that went out the window and you cannot read, you
cannot find
an article on the front page or in the op-ed page of the New York Times in the
last couple
of years that has any other belief than this one, that it is a disease.
It is not within a person's control.
So they're all in on Ozempic or whatever else, because we certainly can't leave
this to people
themselves to control it.
That's a giant sea change.
And the way they sheep-like just go right in a row, no dissent.
Not one person standing up in the paper of record to say, wait a second, this
can't really
be the case.
I mean, 50 years ago, we looked like a completely different people.
Why is it the case?
In 50 years, did we evolve in 50 years, human beings?
Was cake not delicious in 1969?
I think it was.
And yet some, somehow people resisted it.
- Well, there's a lot of diet changes for sure.
And I think one of the things about the narrative, there was, there was a lot
of influence
by vested interests.
Like, you know, I'm sure you know about the 1950s, I believe it was, where the
sugar industry
paid off scientists.
- Of course.
- To, yeah, to put the blame on saturated fat, and it changed people's eating.
- And corn.
- Yeah, corn.
Corn is--
- They changed what sugar came from, because they had too much corn, because
they subsidized
it.
- And they just make sugar out of corn, which is not really what you should be
making.
- Right.
- I mean, cane sugar is not great for you either, but it's bigger, better than
corn.
You see the obesity rates go up as the, as corn syrup, but it's still within
someone's
power to turn it down.
You're not helpless.
- Yeah.
- There's plenty of people out there that have done it, too, that you can get
examples
from.
I mean, especially in this day and age with YouTube and these social media
influencers
that have lost a ton of weight.
So many of those people have gone on diets and lost 150 pounds, and they'll
tell you how
they did it.
- Right.
- And you can get inspiration from them.
- It's not rocket science.
- Yeah, it's doable.
- But it's not easy.
And the idea of calling it a disease, it's interesting because we kind of agree
alcoholism is a disease,
but it is similar because you are addicted to food.
People are absolutely addicted to food, especially high fructose corn syrup
products and things
where there's like, you're getting that big sugar rush and the insulin spikes.
- Well, they do this in the lab, you know.
I mean, all these food companies have labs where they go in and they test how
much fat
and sugar and salt we can put in this thing to make it as addictive as possible.
You know, they don't want you to just eat one about a Lay's potato, betcha
candy.
They want you to have the whole bag and then start another bag.
Thank you.