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You're talking about a different kind of obesity i think. The only thing even remotely healthy about my diet is the vegan part.. but that makes me rely even mo
by elif 11y ago
You're talking about a different kind of obesity i think.
The only thing even remotely healthy about my diet is the vegan part.. but that makes me rely even more on the carb-heavy foods you attack.
I eat tons of processed wheat-based food every day.. I drink heavy juices by the liter, and I am still seriously underweight.
There is clearly a metabolic component, the control of which the OP was theorizing.
- seiji 11y agoOh, absolutely. I know people who subsist on nothing but ice cream, pasta, chipotle, and orange juice while not gaining significant weight. They aren't ripped, but they aren't overweight either. In the aggregate of society, the hyper-ectomorph phenotype isn't what people are fighting against. But, we must not forget about them either. Excessive school lunch programs of calorie restriction aimed towards stopping "fat kids" just pains the skinny kids who need way more calories than the 8 year old borderline diabetics. We need individual nutrition knowledge balanced against our body type. We can't say "everybody must do X," but we should say "People with A, B, C traits should really do X and Y to not be a health menace to society."
- cmarschner 11y agoCurrent research shows a link to the type of gut bacteria we carry around. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-23970219 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-23970219