Worldwide Obesity Tops 1 Billion (axios.com) 144
Rates of obesity in the U.S. and around the world have more than doubled over the past three decades, according to a new study in The Lancet. From a report: More than 1 billion people worldwide now have obesity, a sign of worsening nutrition that's also raising the risk of leading causes of death and disease such as high blood pressure, cancer and diabetes. The global rate of obesity more than doubled among women, from 8.8% to 18.5%, and nearly tripled in men, from 4.8% to 14.0%, between 1990 and 2022, according to research that pulls from over 3,600 studies.
The obesity rate among children and adolescents increased by roughly four times, from 1.7% to 6.9% in girls and 2.1% to 9.3% in boys. Just over 4 in 10 adults and 2 in 5 kids in the U.S. are obese. The U.S. now has the world's 10th-highest male obesity rate and 36th-highest female obesity rate. In 1990, the U.S. had the world's 17th-highest male obesity rate and the 41st-highest female obesity rate.
The obesity rate among children and adolescents increased by roughly four times, from 1.7% to 6.9% in girls and 2.1% to 9.3% in boys. Just over 4 in 10 adults and 2 in 5 kids in the U.S. are obese. The U.S. now has the world's 10th-highest male obesity rate and 36th-highest female obesity rate. In 1990, the U.S. had the world's 17th-highest male obesity rate and the 41st-highest female obesity rate.
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Re: Fatphobic (Score:2)
Only you can't really, it's a myth.
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Some people really can be both fat and healthy. Not everyone, though.
Still, assuming people are unhealthy because they are fat is stupid. There are so many better markers, many of them are very obvious.
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Some people really can be both fat and healthy. Not everyone, though.
Not most people. And usually if you're fat and healthy, you'd be healthier if you weren't fat.
People really ought to accept this instead of getting defensive. It's not like it means anything other than what's on the surface. I have a few extra pounds, like bacon and drink whisky. These are all things which are not good for my health, and I know that and I'm not deluded about it. I do it anyway because frankly I'd rather have a shorter life
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Why is there pro-obesity advocates but nothing like pro-cancer advocates?
Well . . . there are those who think the US's cancer treatments are often overly-aggressive. Does that count?
Kilograms are the new pounds. (Score:5, Interesting)
"More than 1 billion people worldwide now have obesity, a sign of worsening nutrition..."
To be fair, how are our starvation numbers looking? If we've traded an equal or greater number of skeletors for plumplings, I call it a net win.
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It's a big win.
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To be fair, how are our starvation numbers looking? If we've traded an equal or greater number of skeletors for plumplings, I call it a net win.
^This. While neither Cartman nor Starvin Marvin should be aspirational I still know which I would choose first.
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Net win for whom? Starving people generally do not burden a medical system with high lifetime costs. And just maximising the number of humans alive at all costs hasn't worked well for our planet overall.
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Even at the Oscars it becomes very clear about what they actually mean; just substitute the word "best" for "most", e.g. award for the most acting, award for the most special effects, etc.. Everything's a festival of excess.
It must be gutting for Americans(TM) to hear that they're only ranked 10th in the world. Maybe West Virginia (40.6% obese) can secede & take the number one position?
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Are you sure about that? Actual starvation (then next step after malnutrition) is really bad for your health, especially for child development, a nation starting off with widespread permanent disability is not going to do well. You'd be better off saving on a medical system, by not having medicine, as was tradition.
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Locally there's been billboards that say "1 in 5 children in [this state] face hunger". I always laughed at those because 3 in 5 children in this state face obesity! That means 1 in 5 children face normal weight. First World problems. :(
Re: Kilograms are the new pounds. (Score:2)
Up until around 2010 there was a multi decade global downward trend in undernourished people but that trend stalled and the numbers are creeping up again.
Of course this trend isnâ(TM)t in any simple way linked to the obesity trend. Itâ(TM)s possible for the numbers of obese people and the number of starving people to both go up; we are largely talking about different populations of people.
In wealthy countries where starvation is relatively rare, obesity is not a reliable marker of good nutrition
Re: Kilograms are the new pounds. (Score:2)
The 400 pounders generally get enough of every possible vitamin and such.
Whats most perplexing and annoying is the people, mostly americans, who insist that they're obese because they're poor as if fast food was an affordable way to eat. Sure its cheaper than gourmet restaurants but thats high class expensive.
(Mcd around here in upper 3rd world is a luxury flex, not that street noodles didn't have more calories msg and oil, they just can't afford to buy mukbang buckets of it)
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Whats most perplexing and annoying is the people, mostly americans, who insist that they're obese because they're poor as if fast food was an affordable way to eat. Sure its cheaper than gourmet restaurants but thats high class expensive.
I'm not necessarily talking about fast food restaurants, although the role they play in feeding the poor is probably more complicated than you realize. About 20% of Americans live in a food desert -- places without sources of affordable fresh food. Their source of groceries may be the dollar store, which have those kinds of cheap, ultraprocessed foods made with government subsidized feedstocks that live in the interior of your supermarket and which your nutritionist tells you to avoid.
Although my family w
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Skeletor is a massive roid monster with a skull for a head. Skinny he ain't.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.... [nocookie.net]
And yet we can't get rid of sodas (Score:5, Interesting)
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This is a personal responsibility issue. You can't blame the corporations or the government for your people's eating habits and lack of exercise. Education on healthy eating is easy to find on the Internet. At least in the USA, almost everyone over the age of 10 has an Internet enabled smart phone that they could look this up with. Some schools even teach healthy eating in some of their courses.
That some cultures eat foods that are bad for them is not something the government could or even should try to tac
Re:And yet we can't get rid of sodas (Score:5, Interesting)
When healthcare costs go up and health crisis emerges, as we saw even with covid, that IS the government's responsibilty.
When kids are indoctrinated into sugar and saltly foods, that IS the government's reponsibility. We don't let kids smoke or get tattoos to proetct them, but this is WAY worse than either of them. Its a slow death peopel like you carelessly brush off (it's your own problem blah blah balh, but kids learn these behaviors from uncaring people like you).
When inflation casues "good" food to cost significantly more then cheap salt and sugar laced food, that IS the governments responsibilty.
What is your definition of what the government is responsible for, if not for keeping society safe, even if it's from corporations that pass bad products cheaply and have no problem getting kids hooked on this kind of garbage food. Are you for free drugs for kids too? Might as well get them addicted at a young age? You really don't care about anything, do you.
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Re: And yet we can't get rid of sodas (Score:2)
This is the dumbest of all dumb dietary takes. There is a miniscule difference between table sugar and HFCS, like 3%. It's not bad because it's made of fructose, it's bad because they use it plus citric acid to replace veg oil in processed foods to improve shelf stability.
Re: And yet we can't get rid of sodas (Score:2)
You didn't take chemistry or biology did you.
Table sugar, sucrose, is a disaccharide that is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. High fructose corn syrup is a whopping 55% fructose and the rest glucose. Do you really think 5% more fructose is really going to make a difference?
The problem is sugar, period. Lose the sugar water of any type, then start on the processed food.
On the same topic, modified food starch is a glucose polymer that falls apart quickly and hits you with a glucose surge. That's also bad.
One las
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You don't have to shop the middle of the store to eat. Toss in some pasta, rice and beans. I just made a batch of chili for less then $10. Make some rice on the side and I could feed 4 people for two dinner or a single person could be eating that for 4 days.
No one needs to eat fast food. It's cheaper not to in fact. Frozen veggies are cheap and just as good for you as fresh (better because they are going to go bad in a few days). Buying and stocking up when stuff is on a good price point definitely makes th
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Instead of driving to the store, walk! Better for you.
And breathe exhaust from the cars on the highway you walk along for 4 km (2 and a half miles) each way to and from the store. And risk getting hit by a car on the way there or back because sidewalks are inadequate. And risk your frozen veggies and chicken thawing.
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This is a personal responsibility issue. You can't blame the corporations or the government for your people's eating habits and lack of exercise.
Except you absolutely can. When you live in a society where governments have allowed corporations to ensure that the most readily available and visible foods are the unhealthy ones, and you get raised on a diet of government provided shit determined by corporate lobbyists, the concept of personal responsibility ceases to be relevant.
Your responsibility should be to make unbiased choices. The reality is in order to eat healthy your responsibility is to actively fight the society governments and corporations
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I work in a grocery store. It's so painfully easy to walk around the perimeter to get almost all your required foods it's not even funny. At most, you need to go down maybe two middle aisles for pasta, rice, beans and spices.
No one forces you to buy soda. You aren't being held at gun point to buy frozen pre-made meals. You don't need to sit around eating chips, cracks and candy all day. Just don't buy it. It's that easy.
If I want to eat poorly, that should really be up to me. By the exact same token, eating
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You aren't being held at gun point to buy frozen pre-made meals.
In other news, rich man wonders why poor people don't just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
There are an awful lot of people with little time between working two jobs to make ends meet, and on the other end you have large companies with literal research departments figuring out how to make this shit as addictive as possible.
I seriously don't understand you folks that want government to do everything for you and protect you from every pos
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No one forces you to buy soda.
You missed my point. No one forces you to buy soda, but you do so because it is your learned instinct. It is something you learned from school where you got it in your canteen, it's something you learned from never being outside of view of a vending machine, it's something you learned from ... YOUR GROCERY STORE. Wait what? Yeah you said it yourself, you need to walk around the perimeter? In my local store the soda and frozen section is well and truly out of the way. You can't even stumble up in walking thr
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Who do they sue? Food behaviours are learned and passed on. What chance did my parents have at giving me a better start when their entire life they've been subjected to the idea that everything needs to be loaded with sugar, that convenience foods are good, fuck me - go look at what they served at school canteens when your parents were kids.
You're pretending you live in a world free from influence from corporations whose goal is to make you addicted to their product. You don't. You may claim you have free w
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I should had listened to my queen and stop drinking sodas and others when I was younger. :(
Not surprising (Score:2, Insightful)
While the article mentions worsening nutrition, it conveniently leaves out people sitting on their fat asses as they play on their phones. Don't need to go to a store because their lazy ass can order from their phone. Don't need to go to a movie theater because they can sit on their couch. Don't need to go out to a restaurant because their lazy ass can order from their phone (and pay two to three times the cost to have it delivered).
All of the above normally required people get up and move about. Both go
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While its true that physical activity is important, its not nearly as important as consuming better food to begin with. Burning 2000 calories through exercise takes a VERY long time. That would several hours of physical activity. A typical Mcdonalds Double Quarter pounder with fries is about 1500 calories in just one meal. When you consume that crap you are already behind the game unless you're going to be up on a roof or landscaping the rest of the day.
Convenient healthy options like Salad and Go are maki
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Exercise can move the weight-loss needle slightly...very slightly, unless you are exercising at huge levels. But even if you are exercising at huge levels, it is very easy to just make that up by eating. Exercise is neither necessary NOR sufficient to cause weight loss. Changing eating patterns is BOTH necessary AND sufficient to cause weight loss...with or without exercise. So you have to learn to eat less, no matter what. Meanwhile, exercise makes you hungrier, so it's either a net wash, or plausibly even a negative for weight loss.
Most people who try eating less just make a joke of an effort. Like they switch to diet Ranch dressing or something. I'm talking about, try eating a small meal once a day. Try eating every other day. If you must eat 3 times per day, try eating like, 200-500 calorie meals. Whatever it takes to cause weight loss. When you find out how much food that is, that's just how much you can eat without gaining wait. Prepare to be disappointed, but all it means is that you were over-eating before. Data shows modern people eat more than ever. If you simply eat like your grandfather you'd probably be a healthier weight.
Every year during Lent I fast from Sunday to Sunday. During this time, I sit on my ass and contemplate life. I usually lose 12-15 pounds. The rest of the year, I commute by bike, hike, kayak, and do other active things, and I eat food and drink beer and slowly put on weight despite the exercise.
There is an entire industry built around gyms, exercise clothes and equipment, coaching, "health food", "diet food", diet cookbooks, etc. etc. but the one thing that 1) works, guaranteed and 2) is about the only thing that does consistently work is the same thing that doesn't benefit absolutely anybody (except you): Eat less. A lot less. And repeat until desired results are achieved. You will never see an advertisement for this. Even the medical establishment doesn't promote eating less...they are making a killing with diet drugs (which do seem to work but stop working as soon as you stop taking them unless you...learn to eat less).
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And one should eat regularly, but food with modest amounts of calories. Beer has plenty, much more than people think. There are apps to calculate the amount of calories in a certain amount of a certain food. Avoid sweet food and consume foods with plenty of fiber and water with relatively small amount of calories in relation to weight and volum
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Well, not quite.
I would say that exercise is essential, not least from a psychological point of view.
It means taking charge of your body, and not being a victim of it.
It a commitment to yourself.
It leads to the discovery that your body can feel pretty damn good.
And it helps your body in many many other ways.
For the food part, it's more a question of what you eat, not how much.
The knowledge is all out there, and we've all heard it, so it needs no repeating.
The real thing is that junk foods are so heavily ma
Probably one of the many powers of plastic (Score:2, Interesting)
Call it a hunch.
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Or, yes, the drugs could go down like the Hindenburg in a blaze of lawsuits for long-term side effects, like all the previous diet drugs. But so far it doesn't appear so. I think this is it.
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Ozempic is not a limited natural resource. It's also not a biologic. I don't know what the limit of efficiencies of scale will be, but a fraction of what it costs now, which is mostly profit margin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/1... [nytimes.com]
High initial profits aren't a bad thing so long as the profits plow back into ramping up production.
There are also viable competitors, so I don't think those fat margins will last forever.
https: [dallasnews.com]
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Ozempic is not a limited natural resource. It's also not a biologic. I don't know what the limit of efficiencies of scale will be, but a fraction of what it costs now, which is mostly profit margin.
We can get an indicator from the current cost of off-label pharmacy-compounded semaglutide, which sells in the US for about $30 per weekly dose, about $120 per month. No doubt economies of scale will drive that down further, but even at that price I expect it's almost certainly a net won for overall health costs. Assuming, of course, that it doesn't prove to have some nasty long-term side effects (which seems unlikely, given its mechanism, but is obviously possible).
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Or drugs like Ozempic will be reserved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, as is being demanded by diabetic groups.
When is this going to start? Because lots of people are taking it for weight loss, now.
Somewhat the same problem that Ivermectin ran into for treating Covid.
No, that's a completely different situation. The problem Ivermectin ran into as a COVID treatment is that it didn't work unless you had parasites. If you have parasites Ivermectin is great because it kills the parasites so your body doesn't have to fight both COVID and parasites at the same time.
The poor, third world people need it for head lice and river blindness. So pressure mounted to discredit its use in the first world for other diseases.
No. What happened was that the large, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials of Ivermectin in the first world foun
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Is Nutrition actually worse? (Score:2)
Whenever a fat story pops up, there's always someone who says it's because of lack of exercise, someone else who blames high fructose corn syrup, or bad nutrition in general.
The green revolution happened more than 3 decades ago. How much worse has the worlds nutrition has gotten in the past 30 years? How much less are we exercising?
A world wide increase in the last 30 years seems more likely to be something environmental. We stopped using leaded gas, maybe that has something to do with it. Or maybe it's
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The obesity rate among children and adolescents increased by roughly four times, from 1.7% to 6.9% in girls and 2.1% to 9.3% in boys. Just over 4 in 10 adults and 2 in 5 kids in the U.S. are obese.
Is saying "40%" too hard? Or do most Americans really unable to tell immediately that "4 in 10" and "2 in 5" are actually the same?
Then why keep the 1.7% etc in the previous sentence?
Maybe it's a proxy for a decline in home-cooking. (Score:2)
You cook with olive oil. It's not a snack. Olive oil is a proxy for home-cooking.
I think they live long healthy lives because they make everything at home. And conversely when populations stop doing that, there are some pretty serious consequences.
an exciting discovery (Score:2)
I visited WalMart. I discovered where the one billion people are.
Moment (Score:2)
In possibly related news, Earth's day is one billion nanoseconds longer than it was three decades ago. "The Earth's moment of inertia seems to have increased for some mysterious reason" explained some scientist.
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"4 in 10 adults and 2 in 5 kids" (Score:2)
What is the difference?
How are things in Gaza? (Score:2)
Not so bad, eh? Good job, Hamas!
Did people start eating more? (Score:2)
Honestly, is gluttony on the rise across the entire world? Yeah, no.
Our food is manipulated into making us fat when we eat reasonable portions.
I was diabetic and had to inject insulin. I was 80 pounds over weight.
I am no longer diabetic or overweight and I eat as much or more now than I used to.
Nowadays, I make jokes: As I am opening a bag of chips that weighs 16 ounces, I laugh and say here goes another two pounds of fat. (I don't eat chips anymore)
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Nerds are really big on obesity?
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Nerds fall into two general categories: rail thin or obese.
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Nerds fall into two general categories: rail thin or obese.
Just look at the Microsoft campus. The average weight is 150 lbs.
For every 5 Indians at 100 lbs each there's one American at 400.
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That's racist.
I don't care. Americans are a bunch of fat slobs. I've said it before and I'll say it again.
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I see what you did there, and if I had points I'd mod you up as funny. Especially given that the two replies prior to mine had "whoosh" written all over them... ;-)
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I have done the exercise and eating healthy thing. Doesn't work. I never felt any better. Never lost any weight. All it did was strain my already strained finances.
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If you are happy the way you are, then I say just go with it. You only live once. Maximizing your longevity is not some sort of duty that we all face. You are free to pick your own values, and to pick friends that support you in them.
Why did you do the exercise and eat healthy thing? Was it out of peer pressure? Or maybe an experiment to see if it made you feel better? Or did you find your own reasons for wanting to be thinner (and maybe healthier and/or more athletic)? It matters because in the first two cases you probably wouldn't stick with it even if it did make a difference. If it isn't what your heart-of-hearts wants, the incentives to live a lifestyle that you dislike just aren't strong enough. And that's ok, you do you.
But if you have a true desire to lose weight and just got frustrated that it didn't work, I suggest talking to your doctor, as there are medical conditions that make it really hard to lose weight, and they are treatable. Even something like the specific species of bacteria that live in your intestines can have a dramatic impact on this. So if you actually want to lose weight then I suggest that you don't let frustration get the better of you, live your life according to that value system, seek medical advice, and above all, stick with it.
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Why did you do the exercise and eat healthy thing?
Cause I was miserable and was told it could help. It didn't.
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I am sorry to hear that. This sounds like a situation that neither I nor anyone else responding to your thread is qualified to help with.
I hope you find a way out of misery that doesn't involve a downward spiral of addiction and self-destruction. And I hope you find the support you need for that journey (but Slashdot is clearly not the place to look for it).
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Exercise and healthy eating can help, but it might take years.
Usually people who don't exercise go to the gym and overdo it. They gain some muscle fast but they probably can't even see it. Their weight goes up not down. Plus everything hurts because they are not used to exercise. The first month or so can be very demotivating. Plus eating better is extremely difficult in modern American society.
It's all gets easier if you can stick with it a month or two. You adapt to it.
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When I lost the most weight in my life, it was when I was the poorest! I lived on not even 50 bucks a month for food when my health failed from eating poorly. I had to walk a ton as I couldn't always afford gas and had, eat smarter, and the weight eventually came off. Now that I'm financially stable again, my food bills are still way less than they were
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Healthy food is NOT cheaper. The cheapest food is just a bunch of processed carbs. As in, it's hard to get calories cheaper than pancake mix and [artificially flavored] syrup. Maybe if you bought just polished white rice... But guess what, either of those things are basically the same from a dietary standpoint. And shit for you. If that's all you eat you will probably get scurvy.
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You sound fat.
I read it in Cartman's voice :-)
The AC makes the important qualification: healthy food is cheaper if you make it yourself .
A home-cooked 120g(4Oz) portion of steak with vegetables and mash is cheaper than a McDonalds meal.
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healthy food is cheaper if you make it yourself
It is not. Will you stop lying.
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It is not. Will you stop lying.
Is so.
Stop enabling fat people who waste their money on junk food.
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Is so
Is not.
Walkable cities would help (Score:2)
And yeah, some folks like yourself can do everything right and still gain weight. Slow metabolisms are fun like that. If I want to lose weig
Re: Walkable cities would help (Score:2)
"Wendy's was going to do "surge pricing" until there was a ton of bad press, but they have a captive audience"
No, they mostly don't, most Wendy's are near other fast food outlets. The one I worked at was near a Denny's. The one near my office is across the street from a grocery outlet and up the street are over a dozen restaurants, and about a dozen food trucks. Most of them are also within sight of other fast food places.
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Every Wendy's around here is practically across the street from a McDonald's. Surge pricing would've been at their own peril.
TBH, what really makes it difficult to eat healthy if you work odd hours is Walmart no longer being open 24 hours post-Covid. That leaves your only options being either fast food or gas station food after everything else is closed. Well, besides digging through the pantry for something that didn't expire back during the Trump administration, and then going "Alexa, is it safe to eat e
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I have done the exercise and eating healthy thing. Doesn't work. I never felt any better. Never lost any weight. All it did was strain my already strained finances.
I hate to be that guy but you did it wrong. If eating healthy cost you more than eating trash you're doing something very wrong. If you're paying for exercise you're doing even more wrong. For most common western lifestyles, getting more movement and eating healthier is almost universally cheaper.
That is unless substituting bad practices with good ones you attempted to buy your way out by signing up to "healthy ready meal deliveries" and "gym membership with private trainers". Mind you if you didn't feel an
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and expensive to boot.
If you thing healthy eating and exercise is expensive, you are doing it wrong.
By cutting down on the take-away and supermarket processed foods, and cooking instead, I was able to see the ingredients, and become more conscious of what I was eating. Portion control keeps cost and unwanted calories down, while still having delicious food.
Don't get caught up in expensive fad diets. They only work in the short term. To keep weight off, you need sustainable changes to your eating habits.
I have done the exercise and eating healthy thing. Doesn't work. I never felt any better. Never lost any weight
Well that is odd. Most peo
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Re:LOL! (Score:5, Informative)
Cool, smartass, now tell me how many calories you "think" you took in and how many calories you've burned. Here's a hint, you can't due to body chemistry and metabolism. If I consume 2000 calories but I can't digest half of them then I am digesting 1000 calories. Conversely, metabolism while sitting on my desk could consume 800 calories one day or 200 calories another depending on all sorts of factors including sleep.
Many people consume foods to which they are allergic, inflammation wreaks havoc with digestion and makes calculating caloric intake extremely difficult.
A lot of people also have issues with metabolism. My roommate in college would consume a 4000 calorie pizza and stay thin. He actually struggled to keep weight on. If I did that I'd gain 5lbs immediately.
Stop oversimplifying a very complex chemistry problem. It doesn't help anybody. When I was 300lbs I could consume 2000 calories a day and lose weight. Now that I'm quite a bit smaller 2000 calories results in weight gain regardless of activity level. My dogs were my best fitness investment as they get me out to the park every single day.
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No, I don't have a way to lose weight that doesn't involve eating less. But eating less works, guaranteed. And, all all its various forms, it's just about the only thing that does work.
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Or he doesn't have enough enzymes to digest all the fat in an entire pizza in on sitting and poops out a lot of the caloric value. Almost literally flushing money down the drain.
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Then you must be a scientific anomaly. You will lose weight if you burn more calories than you take in.
And I don't get why people don't run 2hr marathons, all you need to do is run a sub 2:50 min/km pace for 42 km!
Everybody understands thermodynamics, but specifying the condition you need to lose weight doesn't actually help people to achieve that condition.
Our lifestyles have changed to be much more sedentary than the past. I can run 10km/day and I'll still probably burn fewer calories than a farmer from 100 years ago.
And high calorie / high reward food is much cheaper and more available than in the past.
So
Re: LOL! (Score:2)
You say "a fat person might be fat for reasons they don't have a lot of control over". Ok. They still have some control over it then.
Some people get by on natural talent, some people work like crazy. The last group tends to have more success in life.
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You say "a fat person might be fat for reasons they don't have a lot of control over". Ok. They still have some control over it then.
Some people get by on natural talent, some people work like crazy. The last group tends to have more success in life.
I'm not claiming there's no impact from willpower and smart decision making. But it doesn't explain as much of the effect as you think.
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not consuming enough alcohol or hard drugs
Am aware. Currently doing more.
Re: It's arbitrary (Score:2)
It's much less arbitrary when folks have issues taking a couple stairs or do the stuff they'd like or need to do, like turn 60 without health issues or simply be up on their feet all day.
On top, sitting in a couch all day, vegetating from one episode on Netflix to the next while eating (here it comes again) ultra-processed foods is a proven recipe for depression and early death.
You happy now?
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The BMI is a completely arbitrary calculation, and benchmark numbers for "overweight" and "obese" were pulled out of someobdy's butt.
Sore about your BMI?
It would be nice to have some real science around weight and health, but nobody cares.
The real science says that BMI as a predictor of obesity is over 95% accurate for men and 99% for women. That's a hell of a lot better than "pulled out of someone's butt".
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