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"weight loss relapse" seems like a weird way of saying "body weight increases".

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
Those words might be used to describe a scenario in which one had been losing weight until an abrupt change of course. It's not a strictly identical idea to "weight gain".
- RobotToaster 4y ago
  I guess? But you wouldn't say a recovering anorexic that relapsed has a "weight gain relapse"? Or someone with cancer having it reoccur as a "tumour free relapse"?
  - sidfthec 4y ago
    Yeah because that's not what "relapse" means. Some definitions I found: - suffer deterioration after a period of improvement. - a deterioration in someone's state of health after a temporary improvement. - to slip or fall back into a former worse state - a recurrence of symptoms of a disease after a period of improvement
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
    Losing weight might actually be a relapse for a recovering anorexic. The "relapse" from being tumor-free would indeed be a weird thing to talk about, though not strictly wrong if the cancer had previously been in remission. > The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that perfluorinated alkylate substance (PFAS) exposures are associated with body weight increases in a dietary intervention study. The phrase appears to be intended to mean the same thing as "body weight increases in a dietary intervention" which seems to describe a relapse, assuming that the purpose of "dietary intervention" is to lose weight. Edit: I guess the first sentence of this comment doesn't actually answer the question it's intending to. To the point of the question, maybe it would be weird to say that a relapsed anorexic had a "weight gain relapse" but only if it would be weird to say they are on a "weight gain treatment".
- stonogo 4y ago
  Not just "might" but explicitly "are." "adults with obesity first lost at least 8% of their body weight and then completed at least 26 weeks on a specific diet" Why invent problems with text you haven't even read?

Those words might be used to describe a scenario in which one had been losing weight until an abrupt change of course. It's not a strictly identical idea to "weight gain".

RobotToaster 4y ago
I guess? But you wouldn't say a recovering anorexic that relapsed has a "weight gain relapse"? Or someone with cancer having it reoccur as a "tumour free relapse"?
- sidfthec 4y ago
  Yeah because that's not what "relapse" means. Some definitions I found: - suffer deterioration after a period of improvement. - a deterioration in someone's state of health after a temporary improvement. - to slip or fall back into a former worse state - a recurrence of symptoms of a disease after a period of improvement
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
  Losing weight might actually be a relapse for a recovering anorexic. The "relapse" from being tumor-free would indeed be a weird thing to talk about, though not strictly wrong if the cancer had previously been in remission. > The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that perfluorinated alkylate substance (PFAS) exposures are associated with body weight increases in a dietary intervention study. The phrase appears to be intended to mean the same thing as "body weight increases in a dietary intervention" which seems to describe a relapse, assuming that the purpose of "dietary intervention" is to lose weight. Edit: I guess the first sentence of this comment doesn't actually answer the question it's intending to. To the point of the question, maybe it would be weird to say that a relapsed anorexic had a "weight gain relapse" but only if it would be weird to say they are on a "weight gain treatment".
stonogo 4y ago
Not just "might" but explicitly "are." "adults with obesity first lost at least 8% of their body weight and then completed at least 26 weeks on a specific diet" Why invent problems with text you haven't even read?