Opinion | To lose weight, AI advises eating half the daily average food intake – should I just listen to my mother?
- My AI friend offers an 11-bullet-point approach for me to lose 10kg, though maybe I can start with a hair cut that shaves 300g – or avoid using a dehumidifier at night
Hongkongers are far from the fattest people on this processed-food planet, even though more than 54 per cent are overweight or obese, according to the 2020-22 Hong Kong Department of Health Population Health Survey.
This compares favourably to 59 per cent of Europeans who are overweight or obese, almost 70 per cent of Americans and 100 per cent of me.
I have put on weight. I know this not just because the hills are steeper, the refrigerator emptier and the shirts more stretched.
I know it because, even though I am an adult with grown-up friends and paid work, when I visited my mother last week, she reached out her hand and disapprovingly patted my stomach as I walked past, nodding her head slowly at the same time.
This is not, according to her, “saying anything”. I of course recognise that the “anything” she has not said is that I should lose weight.
How should a middle-aged adult child respond?
