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> Perhaps instead of taxing food, we instead tax obesity. Put the responsibility on the individual. You probably have better genes than my family. Lookup endom

> Perhaps instead of taxing food, we instead tax obesity. Put the responsibility on the individual. You probably have better genes than my family. Lookup endomorph body type or reasons of reduced metabolism. Evolution has inversed survival of the fattest, so it seems ;)

mlavin 6y ago
>endomorph body type Somatypes are an ancient pseudoscience, while caloric intake relative to TDEE doesn't lie.
- msla 6y ago
  Think it through a bit more: If obesity were taxed, there would be pressure to put loopholes in those taxes. Somatypes and "thrifty genome" and so on would be perfect hooks to hang those loopholes on. Result? Questioning that science becomes politically untenable, at least in some universities and research labs. After all, "the grants just follow the illiction returns", as the poet once said: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/9/29/borking-up-the-wrong-tree-pbtbhe/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/9/29/borking-up-the-...
- NicoJuicy 6y ago
  Completely ignoring some persons that can eat everything they want and don't gain weight. I lost 25 kg. In 6 months, with counting calories and all. But the amount of effort I had to deliver for a normal weight is almost exponentially more 1 hour strength training per day 1 hour cardio in the morning No alcohol 6 * eating small portions 8 hours of sleep 1 cheat meal per week Every day, no exceptions.
dialamac 6y ago
That’s pseudoscience. Regardless of any minor variability in metabolism, you literally cannot get fat from things you don’t put in. This is like high school or middle school physics. This is by far the biggest factor in obesity (consumption).. such that everything else is essentially irrelevant. People with actual metabolism disorders either die or require replacement of enzymes, whether that’s type 1 diabetes or the rarer metabolism disorders. If you eat high volume foods with calories at or below what you’re expending, you will not get fat, full stop. Starving people aren’t fat. There are of course behavioral differences that dictate consumption, some of which are genetically influenced, but metabolism has not much to do with it.
- fomine3 6y ago
  Yes, What people eat is most important but Is metabolism not influenced from genes?

mlavin 6y ago

>endomorph body type Somatypes are an ancient pseudoscience, while caloric intake relative to TDEE doesn't lie.

msla 6y ago
Think it through a bit more: If obesity were taxed, there would be pressure to put loopholes in those taxes. Somatypes and "thrifty genome" and so on would be perfect hooks to hang those loopholes on. Result? Questioning that science becomes politically untenable, at least in some universities and research labs. After all, "the grants just follow the illiction returns", as the poet once said: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/9/29/borking-up-the-wrong-tree-pbtbhe/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/9/29/borking-up-the-...
NicoJuicy 6y ago
Completely ignoring some persons that can eat everything they want and don't gain weight. I lost 25 kg. In 6 months, with counting calories and all. But the amount of effort I had to deliver for a normal weight is almost exponentially more 1 hour strength training per day 1 hour cardio in the morning No alcohol 6 * eating small portions 8 hours of sleep 1 cheat meal per week Every day, no exceptions.

dialamac 6y ago

That’s pseudoscience. Regardless of any minor variability in metabolism, you literally cannot get fat from things you don’t put in. This is like high school or middle school physics. This is by far the biggest factor in obesity (consumption).. such that everything else is essentially irrelevant. People with actual metabolism disorders either die or require replacement of enzymes, whether that’s type 1 diabetes or the rarer metabolism disorders. If you eat high volume foods with calories at or below what you’re expending, you will not get fat, full stop. Starving people aren’t fat. There are of course behavioral differences that dictate consumption, some of which are genetically influenced, but metabolism has not much to do with it.

fomine3 6y ago
Yes, What people eat is most important but Is metabolism not influenced from genes?