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"Losing weight isn't causal to being healthy." Strictly spoken, true, but being overweight definitely is causal to decreased health.
by mvdwoord 4y ago
"Losing weight isn't causal to being healthy."
Strictly spoken, true, but being overweight definitely is causal to decreased health.
- smcl 4y agoI think the important point in the context of this diet is: it may help you lose weight, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll become more healthy. I guess it's very dependent on individual circumstances, and "healthy" is a fairly broad term.
- cassianoleal 4y ago> being overweight definitely is causal to decreased health. Even that is not necessarily always true. I imagine being oevrweight is generally much healthier than going through famine.
- inglor_cz 4y agoIt does not help that we are colloquially using the "overweight" label as an euphemism for morbid obesity, because we do not want to offend anyone including ourselves. I have never met a person who claimed to be merely "overweight" and wasn't actually massively obese. In doctor's parlance, overweight means BMI between 25 and 30. This tends to correlate with the lowest all cause mortality in older people [0], so it might not be a big deal. But outright obesity (BMI > 30) and morbid obesity (BMI > 40) are definitely a health problem. [0] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/99/4/875/4637868 https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/99/4/875/4637868