People on The Straight Dope joking about food waste.

Dear Abby gave this weight-loss advice: “Regardless of what your mother told you, cleaning your plate is not going to help any starving children in Africa.”

Not wholly truthful piece of food waste does have a climate impact which in turn causes famines. When I was a kid I foodwasted so much. I never wanted to finish my plates even with more than half left and I still feel guilty about that. Since I grew up I got way better about it. I can’t remember even one time doing it. That’s mostly due to having more control over what gets put on my plate in the first place.

Study tracking mental health after bariatric surgery:

The prevalence difference in filled psychiatric drug prescription was highest 10 years after the matched index date (20·4%; 15·9–24·9), when 171 (36·5%) of 469 surgery patients and 739 (16·0%) of 4607 matched adolescents filled a psychiatric drug prescription.

TL;DR: psychiatric diagnoses & prescriptions were more common in the cohort before bariatric surgery and a lot more common after. People were feeling super bad.

The chickens & eggs get tangled up when trying to view larger trends around this issue—perhaps there are feedback loops?