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Being obese and eating less or feeling hungry doesn't mean you're starving or malnourished. That's complete hyperbole. The fact is if you're fat, you've condit

Being obese and eating less or feeling hungry doesn't mean you're starving or malnourished. That's complete hyperbole. The fact is if you're fat, you've conditioned yourself to eat too many calories, and eating a normal amount of calories will likely leave you feeling hungrier while you adjust.

prostoalex 10y ago
And yet fasting diets do not consistently work, and it's the fattest countries of the world that have supermarket shelves full of low-calorie products (finding a low-calorie yogurt or low-fat cheese in a French supermarket would be a challenge) http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(96)00456-1/abstract http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(96)00456-1/abstract "In the adult US population the prevalence of overweight rose from 25.4% from 1976 to 1980 to 33.3% from 1988 to 1991, a 31% increase. During the same period, average fat intake, adjusted for total calories, dropped from 41.0% to 36.6%, an 11% decrease. Average total daily calorie intake also tended to decrease, from 1,854 kcal to 1,785 kcal (−4%). Men and women had similar trends. Concurrently, there was a dramatic rise in the percentage of the US population consuming low-calorie products, from 19% of the population in 1978 to 76% in 1991. From 1986 to 1991 the prevalence of sedentary lifestyle represented almost 60% of the US population, with no change over time."