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Those are hypothetical causes but they don't actually line up with all the observations. For instances, poor people are fatter than rich people. Shouldn't rich
by frankc 9y ago
Those are hypothetical causes but they don't actually line up with all the observations. For instances, poor people are fatter than rich people. Shouldn't rich people be fatter since they
1) don't have to work as much manual labor
2) have more access to food.
You can try complicate the explanations to account for this but the fact is that it shows that the 'obvious' reasons most people surmise are not so clear cut and need to be tested like any hypothesis. It's a hard problem to test and there are several other competing hypothesis. The best I can say for my own beliefs is that we need to have more studies that need to be done before I'm convinced of any of them.
- linkregister 9y agoI suspect there is no one-size-fits-all solution for obesity: some people experienced sustained weight loss only after undertaking a vegetarian diet, some only by a ketogenic diet, some only by getting into sustained exercise, and some only by a laproscopic band. For some people, obesity isn't even associated with poor health.
- antisthenes 9y agoWhat? It makes perfect sense. I explain this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14353914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14353914 It's cheaper to not exercise.
- overcast 9y agoSorry, but exercise doesn't require a gym membership, that's just nonsense. Look at the guys in prison. Go run around your block, do pushups, and pull-ups in your house. I've never spent a dime in a gym, and I exercise five days a week. Also exercise is not for weight loss, it's for exercise.
- overcast 9y agoThere have been poor people throughout the history of time, why is it that obesity rates have been going up? Shouldn't they stay the same, or decrease, as more people move away from the have not, to the have something? Spent a month in India, tons of poor people, very few fat ones. The majority of overweight people were the affluent, that just didn't care, because they were well fed, and had essentially slaves working for them to do all of the hard physical work.