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I wonder if the two can't be reconciled. It's probably ideal, from a health perspective, to avoid developing things like metabolic in the first place. But has i

I wonder if the two can't be reconciled. It's probably ideal, from a health perspective, to avoid developing things like metabolic in the first place. But has it been demonstrated that, once you're already there, living the kind of aggressively orthorexic lifestyle it takes to get down to an ostensibly healthy weight does more good than harm? Even without that, though, I'm sympathetic to HAES because it seems quite likely that, even if absolutely nothing else, focusing on body weight rather than lifestyle factors ultimately does more to discourage than encourage making healthier choices.

geofft 6y ago
And in fact this study totally fails to refute that idea. All it does is it says that, among a half million people, the higher-BMI groups had more cases of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes, even when controlling for levels of physical activity. It says nothing about whether adding physical activity to get to a lower-BMI group could work as a treatment for any of those, nor whether there are any consequences of that level of physical activity.